Quotes by : Barbara W. Tuchman

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely....

His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw

He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.

Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western....

Folly is a child of power.

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the....

Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't....

Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.

House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else.....

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.