Barbara Tuchman's Profile
Brief about Barbara Tuchman: By info that we know Barbara Tuchman was born at 1912-01-30. And also Barbara Tuchman is American Historian.
Some Barbara Tuchman's quotes. Goto "Barbara Tuchman's quotation" section for more.Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Tags: History, Science, ThoughtEvery successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
Tags: Revolution, Successful, TimeNo more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
Tags: Decision, Government, HardThe unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
Tags: Friend, Old, PastDiplomacy 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.
Tags: Old, Power, SecretDead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Tags: Dead, Military, MindFor 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.
Tags: Leaving, Life, WorkingNothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Tags: Dead, Great, MindReasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
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