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
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not… — 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
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets,… — 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 Image
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex. — 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 rendezvous with… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians. — 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 the physical… — 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 that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
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