“It is magnificent, but it is not war; it is madness.”
C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre: c'est de la folie.
Of the charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava. Quoted in "Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations" - Page 346 - by Robert Debs Heinl - 1966
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