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

Quote by Barbara W Tuchman

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

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

Books are humanity in print.

Books are humanity in print.

A relentless talent for tactlessness.

A relentless talent for tactlessness.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled,...

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Books are humanity in print.

Books are humanity in print.

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity...

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity...

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.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans,...

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans,...

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than...

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than...

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are...

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are...

If there is not the war, you dont get the great general; if there is...

If there is not the war, you dont get the great general; if there is...

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is...

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is...

When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men...

When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men...

Duty is the sublimest word in our language.

Duty is the sublimest word in our language.

Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed....

Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed....

It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.

You, you, and you... panic. The rest of you, come with me.

You, you, and you... panic. The rest of you, come with me.

Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood

Military glory - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood

Battles are lost or won in 15 minites

Battles are lost or won in 15 minites