Barbara Tuchman Quote

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“Books are humanity in print.”

- Barbara Tuchman

Source/Notes: The book: a lecture sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979 (Library of Congress, 1980), p. 13

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

- Barbara Tuchman

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“Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.”

- Barbara Tuchman

Source/Notes: The Guns of August: The Outbreak of World War I (1962)

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“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

Source/Notes: Practicing History: Selected Essays Barbara W. Tuchman (Random House Publishing Group, 2011 edition), p. 204, "If Mao had come to Washington"

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“Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.”

- Barbara Tuchman

Source/Notes: Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-1945 (1970)

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“For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.”

- Barbara Tuchman