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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

— Winston Churchill

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  1. Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress …
  2. We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
  3. Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it; but, in the end; there it is.
  4. We didn't come this far because we are made of sugar candy.
  5. To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.
  6. We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.
  7. This paper by its very length defends itself against the risk of being read.
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  • history
  • war
  • strategy
  • error
  • mistakes

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