276 Quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

Folly is a child of power.

To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.

He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.

His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.

Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself.

Pessimism is a primary source of passivity,