Quotes About Tuchman

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

Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.

A man ahead of his time, Oresme suggested that the source of demons and specters could be the disease of melancholy.

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

He said that whatever the outcome in America, he would always regard it as a glory and honor to have upheld the cause which he regarded as that of all humankind.

Oversimplified perhaps, this in essence is the problem known to nineteenth-century diplomacy as the Eastern Question.