Quotes about Barbara Tuchman

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave...

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

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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of...

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

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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is...

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

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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval...

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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much...

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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands...

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

#Barbara Tuchman