Quotes from Barbara Tuchman

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

The Church [in the 14th century] gave ceremony and dignity to lives that had little of either. It was the source of beauty and art to which all had some access and which many helped to create.

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.