Barbara Tuchman Quotes

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. Barbara Tuchman

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

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

Books are humanity in print. Barbara Tuchman

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. 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 a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. Barbara Tuchman

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. Barbara Tuchman