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War Quotes by Barbara Tuchman
- When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the…
- The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
- No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British…
- Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do…
- More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life...
- War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
- After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I…
- Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.
More War Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of… — William Henry Ashley
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov