16 Quotations by Barbara Tuchman
- 1. Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science c ...
- 2. Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
- 3. Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, se ...
- 4. Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
- 5. For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h ...
- 6. No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to ...
- 7. Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
- 8. Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
- 9. Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands t ...
- 10. The hero must have some form of higher purpose in life.
- 11. The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the ...
- 12. To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of pub ...
- 13. To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
- 14. We have lost a sense of respect for serious, honest conduct. If we are moved merely by greed, and th ...
- 15. When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot les ...
- 16. You can't go on believing in Santa Claus and have the results be positive.
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