Barbara Tuchman's Quote - No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. – Barbara Tuchman

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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. – Barbara Tuchman

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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. – Barbara Tuchman

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War is the unfolding of miscalculations. – Barbara Tuchman

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A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. – Benjamin Disraeli

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In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesnt mean that it couldnt be published. – Alan Dershowitz

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Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. – Honore de Balzac

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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money. – Barbara Bush

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