Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1954 |
| AUTHOR: | Various Frenchmen |
| QUOTATION: | War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Attributed to various Frenchmen including Talleyrand, Clemenceau, and Briand. Unverified. Often heard, “… entrusted to generals.” |
| SUBJECTS: | War |