The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.” — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life... — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“[Blinker] Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (London), January… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
The clergy [in the 14th century] on the whole were probably no more lecherous or greedy or untrustworthy than other men, but because they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
“German soldiers, posted as informers, were found dressed as peasants, even as peasant women. The latter were discovered, presumably in the course of non-military… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
I ask myself, have nations ever declined from a loss of moral sense rather than from physical reasons or the pressure of barbarians? I… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share
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