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