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
The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard — Barbara 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… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. — 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
The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd… — 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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