Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

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• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  Books are humanity in print.

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glor

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, s