“Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“The world remembers the battle ever since by the taxis. A hundred of them were already in the service of the Military Government of… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“The cutting off of Russia with all its consequences, the vain and sanguinary tragedy of Gallipoli, the diversion of Allied strength in the campaigns… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“In the Hundred Years’ War that dragged France and England through the 14th century, both sides would have liked to quit but could not,… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“The occasions when an individual is able to harness a nation are memorable, and Grey’s speech proved to be one of those junctures by… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Wherever the Reformation took hold the Bible replaced the Pope as the final spiritual authority.” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Inevitably, as hatred of monarchy was added to hatred of episcopacy, they were led to republicanism.” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“This country is indeed in a melancholy situation; sunk in ease, devoted to the pursuits of gain, incumbered with a complicated and perplexed constitution,… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Persian poet said, the rose blooms reddest where some buried Caesar bled. The” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Cromwell. The door was flung open. In stalked the Protector, disgusted once more with the inability of human weaklings to come to the point,… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Not a passing phenomenon nor an external force, the companies had become a way of life, a part of society itself, used and joined… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Guides were Franciscan monks, sole custodians of the holy places after 1230, who recited the history and traditions associated with each town or monument… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Although the defects of the Russian Army were notorious, although the Russian winter, not the Russian Army, had turned Napoleon back from Moscow, although… — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Had all the world been a school and Wilson its principal, he would have been the greatest statesman in history.” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Have we,” he wondered, “conceived a merely human project and then imagined it to be a decree of the Almighty?” — Barbara W. Tuchman Copy Share Image
