Quotes by Barbara W Tuchman

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

#Books

Books are humanity in print.

#Books

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

#Books, #Literature

Books are humanity in print.

#Books, #Literature

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

#Books, #History, #Literature

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

#Libraries

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

#Military

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

#Military

A relentless talent for tactlessness.

#Talent

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

#War