Barbara Tuchman
Quotes by Barbara Tuchman
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
— Barbara Tuchman
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
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
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
— Barbara Tuchman
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
— Barbara Tuchman