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Barbara Tuchman

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
— Barbara Tuchman mind
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 men
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
— Barbara Tuchman library
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
— Barbara Tuchman mind
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
— Barbara Tuchman man
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
— Barbara Tuchman war
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
— Barbara Tuchman past
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
— Barbara Tuchman food
To put away ones own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
— Barbara Tuchman thoughts
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
— Barbara Tuchman war
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
— Barbara Tuchman mind
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 power
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
— Barbara Tuchman success
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 life
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
— Barbara Tuchman honor

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