Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
- Barbara Tuchman
Means, Appeasement, Period, Alliance
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
- Barbara Tuchman
History, Some, Fleet, Sailed
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
- Barbara Tuchman
Decision, More, Which, British Government
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
- Barbara Tuchman
Enough, Reasonable, Idiotic, Orders
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
- Barbara Tuchman
Thoughts, Original, Away, Holy Ghost
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
- Barbara Tuchman
Companion, Been, Brought, Card
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
- Barbara Tuchman
Thought, Silent, Speculation, Crippled
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
- Barbara Tuchman
Mind, Generals, Grip, Battles
Books are humanity in print.
- Barbara Tuchman
Humanity, Print, Books, In Print
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
- Barbara Tuchman
Forest, Other, Which, Old Friend
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
- Barbara Tuchman
Mind, General, Maxim, Comforts
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
- Barbara Tuchman
Door, Library, More, Closed
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
- Barbara Tuchman
War, Unfolding
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
- Barbara Tuchman
Honor, Different, Wears, Coats
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.
- Barbara Tuchman
Time, Tyrant, Every, Puts
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
- Barbara Tuchman
Shelter, Even, Historian, Libraries
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