276 Quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman

The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed

If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.

Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.

As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin

Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power.

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine.

Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.

These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle