Barbara Tuchman – 5 Quotes

5 Quotes by Barbara Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

– Barbara Tuchman

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

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

– Barbara 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

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

– Barbara Tuchman