Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

Quotes

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.

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 W. Tuchman

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

- Barbara W. Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

- Barbara W. Tuchman

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

- Barbara W. Tuchman

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.

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.

- Barbara W. Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

- Barbara W. Tuchman

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

- Barbara W. 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.

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 W. Tuchman

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