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When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Honor wears different coats to different eyes (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
In the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
In the midst of events there is no perspective (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Against men habituated to lawless force, violent punishment failed to bring the violence under control (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
What counts is not so much the fact as what the public perceives to be the fact (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few? (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
War is the unfolding of miscalculations (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Woman [in the 14th century] was the church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the devil's decoy (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
No female iniquity was more severely condemned [in the 14th century] than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Books are... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Books are humanity in print (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)
One constant among the elements of 1914 - as of any era - was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true (Barbara Tuchman Quotes)