276 Quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman

Society's revenge matched its fright.

Party animosity was concealed under a veil of studied courtesy.

Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden.

A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day.

The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.

The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.

The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate.