Barbara Tuchman was a famous Historian from USA, who lived between January 30, 1912 and February 6, 1989. He/she became 77 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aquarius, who is known for Knowledge, Humanitarian, Serious, Insightful, Duplicitous.
Our collection contains 16 quotes who is written / told by Barbara, under the main topic War.
16 Famous quotes by Barbara Tuchman
"Honor wears different coats to different eyes"
"Books are humanity in print"
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill"
"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost"
"The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard"
"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"
"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"
"Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed"
"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision"
"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip"
"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse"
"Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline"
"War is the unfolding of miscalculations"
"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"
"Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general"
"Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library"
