Quotes by Barbara Tuchman

The following are quotes from Barbara Tuchman:

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

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

History is the unfolding of miscalculation.

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

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