Barbara W. Tuchman

“Each day he grew older and learned something new.” Strong”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Kitchener up to London, but could not yet nerve himself”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Persian poet said, the rose blooms reddest where some buried Caesar bled. The”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Pessimism is a primary source of passivity. As”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“the Archimedean point where the lever can be applied.” At”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“But once divinity of doctrine has been questioned there is no return to perfect faith.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Wherever the Reformation took hold the Bible replaced the Pope as the final spiritual authority.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“If there have been mute inglorious Miltons in rural villages, presumably there have been unrealized Washingtons born in unpropitious times.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Belgium’s declared intention to fight was, the Germans believed, no more than the “rage of dreaming sheep”—in the words a Prussian statesman…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“(Present-day anthropologists defend the thesis that the American Indians were in fact originally Mongolians who crossed over by the Bering Strait.)”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“But to “settle” the Eastern Question was beyond even Disraeli’s power—beyond, it seems, any human power, for it still haunts the world…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“They were twelve days in which world history wavered between two courses and the Germans came so close to victory that they…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Inevitably, as hatred of monarchy was added to hatred of episcopacy, they were led to republicanism.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The writer's object should be to hold the reader's attention. I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The road to India, the Suez Canal, the oil fields of Mosul, the whole complex of political and strategic requirements that drew…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Guides were Franciscan monks, sole custodians of the holy places after 1230, who recited the history and traditions associated with each town…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“It was a “severe” disappointment to Henry Wilson who laid it all at the door of Kitchener and the Cabinet for having…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Eventually the United States became the latter arsenal and bank of the allies, and acquired a direct interest in allied victory that…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“In this atmosphere of doubt why was the extreme risk approved? Partly because exasperation at the failure of all her efforts at…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“It was one of the peculiar malfunctions of technology that shore batteries on the islands were generally of inadequate caliber and range…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Not a passing phenomenon nor an external force, the companies had become a way of life, a part of society itself, used…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Cornwallis was a man who could have thrust his hand in a flame if necessary, but not a man to organize the…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“This country is indeed in a melancholy situation; sunk in ease, devoted to the pursuits of gain, incumbered with a complicated and…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“the Home Secretary, a young man of thirty-seven, impossible to ignore, who, from his inappropriate post, had pelted the Prime Minister during…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“with that characteristic touch of late-Romanov rashness, the government, by ukase of August 22, extended prohibition for the duration of the war.…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The war, like all wars, was proving more expensive for the Bourbons than planned. Since the alliance, France had advanced to the…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“This was the Evangelical Revival that now began to take hold on the propertied class, who, frightened by what was happening in…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“History was finite and contained within comprehensible limits. It began with the Creation and was scheduled to end in a not indefinitely…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“When it comes to leaders we have, if anything, a superabundance—hundreds of Pied Pipers…ready and anxious to lead the population. They are…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The author of IRR, who worshipped the King, said he had the valor of Hector, the magnanimity of Achilles, the liberality of…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Individual admirals and captains made their fortunes from their share of prize money, which was divided according to prize law of an…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The world remembers the battle ever since by the taxis. A hundred of them were already in the service of the Military…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The proud tower built up through the great age of European civilization was an edifice of grandeur and passion, of riches and…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“For his son-in-law the Pope suffered no further spasms of morality. Rather, judging from Burchard’s diary, the last inhibitions, if any, dropped…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Cromwell. The door was flung open. In stalked the Protector, disgusted once more with the inability of human weaklings to come to…

— Barbara W. Tuchman