Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara Tuchman quote A relentless talent for tactlessness.
Barbara Tuchman quote The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
Barbara Tuchman quote To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
Barbara Tuchman quote To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Barbara Tuchman quote War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Barbara Tuchman quote 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 quote 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 quote Biography
American author, self-trained historian, 1912-89