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Barbara Tuchman

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Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Barbara Tuchman
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
Barbara Tuchman
What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few
Barbara Tuchman
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
Barbara Tuchman
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Barbara Tuchman
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
Barbara Tuchman
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Barbara Tuchman
Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.
Barbara Tuchman
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
Barbara Tuchman
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
Barbara Tuchman
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
Barbara Tuchman
HONOR WEARS DIFFERENT COATS TO DIFFERENT EYES.
Barbara Tuchman
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Barbara Tuchman
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
Barbara Tuchman
Books are humanity in print.
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.
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The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
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More than a code of manners in war and love Chivalry was a moral system governing the whole of noble life.
Barbara Tuchman

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