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To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of two kinds: the library of published material, books, pamphlets, periodicals, and the archive of unpublished papers and documents.
By Barbara Tuchman
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
By 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.
By Barbara Tuchman
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
By Barbara Tuchman
The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.
By Barbara Tuchman
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
By Barbara Tuchman
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
By Barbara Tuchman