Quotes by : Barbara W. Tuchman

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

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined,....

Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.

Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.

If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.

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

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.....