Quotes by : Barbara W. Tuchman

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant....

Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence....

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.....

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander

Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of....

Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.