Barbara Tuchman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Books are humanity in print.”

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

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