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Hubert Humphrey advised new members, If you feel an urge to stand up and make a speech attacking Vietnamese policy, don't make it.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The fief of Coucy from the Church; it was now held directly of the King, and its seigneur paid homage only to the King's person.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
They resented the patronage they depended upon.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Policy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Only the Church offered an organizing principle, which was the reason for its success, for society cannot bear anarchy.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?
— Barbara W. Tuchman
To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
— Barbara Tuchman
When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting.
— Barbara Tuchman
That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Society's revenge matched its fright.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done. Benjamin Franklin
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Human behavior is timeless.
— Barbara Tuchman
Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability.
— Barbara Tuchman
Connection was the cement of the governing class.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [office]," he wrote to a friend, "a rottenness begins in his conduct.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Of England's patrician class, the author writes: It was easy to be agreeable when everything was done to keep them in comfort and ease.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.
— Barbara Tuchman
Once the divinity of doctrine has been questioned there is no return to perfect faith.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The cracking of old and famous structures is slow and internal, while the facade holds.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.
— Barbara Tuchman
The Republic cured me of the Republic.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Party animosity was concealed under a veil of studied courtesy.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
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Woman [in the 14th century] was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
— Barbara Tuchman
How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.
— Barbara Tuchman
When a pope's election could not be explained rationally, it was attributed to the Holy Ghost.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
— Barbara Tuchman
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
— Barbara Tuchman
The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
But to "settle" the Eastern Question was beyond even Disraeli's power - beyond, it seems, any human power, for it still haunts the world today.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
His decision suggests that an absence of overriding personal ambition together with shrewd common sense are among the essential components of wisdom.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The affair made men feel larger than life.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
He believed that rank without power was a sham.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher
— Barbara W. Tuchman
No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The castle's predecessor, the Roman villa, had been unfortified, depending on Roman law and the Roman legions for its ramparts.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The Empire had no political cohesion, no capital city, no common laws, common finances, or common officials. It was the relic of a dead ideal.
— Barbara W. 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
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Pessimism is a primary source of passivity,
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
— Barbara Tuchman
The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Anything that protracted a campaign Clausewitz condemned. "Gradual reduction" of the enemy, or a war of attrition, he feared like the pit of hell.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Women were considered the snare of the Devil, while at the same time the cult of the Virgin made one woman the central object of love and adoration.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
If he had a little more brains he would be a half-wit.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
— Barbara Tuchman
Liberality in gifts and expenditure which, since his followers lived off it, was extolled as the most admired attribute of a noble.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle
— Barbara W. Tuchman
One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
In the midst of events there is no perspective.
— Barbara Tuchman
The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
— Barbara Tuchman
Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
In the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Every repetition of the choice only hardened the issue.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
— Barbara Tuchman
Believing themselves superior in soul, in strength, in energy, industry, and national virtue, Germans felt they deserved the dominion of Europe.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Impunity in such affairs was no longer a matter of course, for the King was Louis IX, a sovereign whose sense of rulership was equal to his piety.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
— Barbara Tuchman
reproaches himself for recoiling from the stench of the poor and the sick,
— Barbara W. Tuchman
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
— Barbara Tuchman
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as the most flagrant of all passions.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
When those who have the title of shepherd play the part of wolves," said Lothar of Saxony, "heresy grows in the garden of the Church.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.
— Babara Tuchman
Completeness is rare in history ...
— Barbara Tuchman
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[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
— Barbara Tuchman
Little attention was paid, because the German people, no matter how hungry, remained obedient.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
Fine dressing could not be suppressed despite ever-renewed sumptuary laws which tried especially and repeatedly to outlaw the pointed shoes.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
