Barbara W. Tuchman - People Quotes

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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.

Barbara W. Tuchman

When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Left to face a hungry winter robbed of their hard-earned harvests, the people experienced their own warrior class not as protectors but ravagers.

Barbara W. Tuchman

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

Barbara W. Tuchman

For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions.

Barbara W. Tuchman