Quotes About Barbara W. Tuchman

The origin of war, according to its 14th century codifier Honoré Bonet, lay in Lucifer's war against God,

Have we," he wondered, "conceived a merely human project and then imagined it to be a decree of the Almighty?

Fear and horror of the franc-tireur sprang from the German feeling that civil resistance was essentially disorderly. If there has to be a choice between injustice and disorder, said Goethe, the German prefers injustice.

the Regents' dislike of the social "leveling" they sensed in the Revolution was stronger.

This was not necessarily a deliberate effort to be offensive; it was normal for General Staff officers to be offensive.

Treitschke who set the increase of power as the highest moral duty of the state, of the whole German people, who called their temporal ruler the "All-Highest.

The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.