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   Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations.  1989.
 
 
NUMBER:1954
AUTHOR:Various Frenchmen
QUOTATION:War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
ATTRIBUTION:Attributed to various Frenchmen including Talleyrand, Clemenceau, and Briand. Unverified.

  Often heard, “… entrusted to generals.”
SUBJECTS:War
 
 
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