Barbara Tuchman Quotes

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. - Barbara Tuchman

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. - 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

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. - Barbara Tuchman

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. - Barbara Tuchman

Page 1 of 1