"La guerre! C’est une chose trop grave pour la confier à des militaires."
— Georges Clemenceau

January 1, 1970

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War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers. — As quoted in Clemenceau and the Third Republic (1946) by John Hampden Jackson, p. 228; this has also become commonly paraphrased as: War is too important to be left to the generals.