276 Quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman

Armed forces were no longer primarily feudal levies serving under a vassal’s obligation who went home after forty days; they were recruited bodies who served for pay.

There is no record what Asquith replied or what, in his inmost mind, a region difficult to penetrate under the best of circumstances, he thought on this crucial question.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as “the most flagrant of all passions.

Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

Persian poet said, the rose blooms reddest where some buried Caesar bled. The.

They were twelve days in which world history wavered between two courses and the Germans came so close to victory that they reached out and touched it between the Aisne and the Marne.

So lethal was the disease that cases were known of persons going to bed well and dying before they woke, of doctors catching the illness at a bedside and dying before the patient.

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings.

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