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War is the unfolding of miscalculations. - Barbara Tuchman

War is the unfolding of miscalculations. – Barbara Tuchman

Other quotes by Barbara Tuchman

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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Diplomacy
Author
Barbara Tuchman
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. – Barbara Tuchman

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History
Author
Barbara Tuchman
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Other Quotes from
War
category

War would end if the dead could return. – Stanley Baldwin

Category:
War

I have a friend that is a WWII buff, and we sat and talked a lot about stuff like the war and the reasons behind it, and you now its all in the uniform. Once youre in it, it usually does all the work for you. – Ryan Gosling

Category:
War

We did not go to war in Afghanistan or in Iraq to, quote, impose democracy. We went to war in both places because we saw those regimes as a threat to the United States. – Paul Wolfowitz

Category:
War

War is fear cloaked in courage. – William Westmoreland

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War

Random Quotes

People can cry much easier than they can change. – James A. Baldwin

Category:
Change

How long the night seems to one kept awake by pain. – Bernard-Joseph Saurin, Blanche et Guiscard, translated from French

Category:
Night

Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: “Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?” – Madame Swetchine

Category:
Sanity

Bankers – pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. – John Ralston Saul

Category:
Society