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Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes

«Books are humanity in print.»
«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.»
«Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.»
«To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman | About: Libraries | Keywords: historian, Libraries, shelter
«Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.»
«The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.»
«Honor wears different coats to different eyes.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman | Keywords: coats
«Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.»
«Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.»
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman | About: Military | Keywords: comforts, maxim, The Military
«Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.»