Barbara Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#carriers #civilization #crippled #dumb #history

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#food #historian #libraries #muse #shelter

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#british government #come #decision #distressing #ever

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#fell #forest #friend #heard #none

War is the unfolding of miscalculations. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#unfolding

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#balances #devices #diplomacy #during #fascism

Books are humanity in print. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#humanity #in print #print

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#dead #generals #grip #hold #like

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#every #puts #revolution #robes #successful

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#brought #card #catalog #companion #house