Top 160 Barbara W. Tuchman Quotes (2024 Update)
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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Evaluation of enemy strength is not an absolute, but a matter of piecing together scraps of reconnaissance and intelligence to form a picture, if possible a picture to fit preconceived theories or to suit the demands of a particular strategy. What a staff makes out of the available evidence depends upon the degree of optimism or pessimism prevailing among them, on what they want to believe or fear to believe, and sometimes upon the sensitivity or intuition of an individual.”

151. “Evaluation of enemy strength is not an absolute, but a matter of piecing together scraps of reconnaissance and intelligence to form a picture, if possible a picture to fit preconceived theories or to suit the demands of a particular strategy. What a staff makes out of the available evidence depends upon the degree of optimism or pessimism prevailing among them, on what they want to believe or fear to believe, and sometimes upon the sensitivity or intuition of an individual.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Officers succumbed to the spirit of conspirators.”

152. “Officers succumbed to the spirit of conspirators.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Little attention was paid, because the German people, no matter how hungry, remained obedient.”

153. “Little attention was paid, because the German people, no matter how hungry, remained obedient.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “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.”

154. “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.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: “Live for that better day.”

155. “A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: “Live for that better day.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Without a country, you are the basket of humanity.”

156. “Without a country, you are the basket of humanity.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “The cracking of old and famous structures is slow and internal, while the facade holds.”

157. “The cracking of old and famous structures is slow and internal, while the facade holds.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “The castle’s predecessor, the Roman villa, had been unfortified, depending on Roman law and the Roman legions for its ramparts.”

158. “The castle’s predecessor, the Roman villa, had been unfortified, depending on Roman law and the Roman legions for its ramparts.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Doctors were admired, lawyers universally hated and mistrusted.”

159. “Doctors were admired, lawyers universally hated and mistrusted.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “When a pope’s election could not be explained rationally, it was attributed to the Holy Ghost.”

160. “When a pope’s election could not be explained rationally, it was attributed to the Holy Ghost.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.”

161. “Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “It is clearer now that no anti-Semitic government in any country has ever helped its scapegoats to leave by any other door than death.”

162. “It is clearer now that no anti-Semitic government in any country has ever helped its scapegoats to leave by any other door than death.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “The feelings of the men who had raised Urban over their own heads probably cannot be adequately described. Some thought that the delirium of power had made the Pope furiosus et melaneholicus – in short, mad.”

163. “The feelings of the men who had raised Urban over their own heads probably cannot be adequately described. Some thought that the delirium of power had made the Pope furiosus et melaneholicus – in short, mad.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Owing to the disabilities of the two major sovereigns, one incapacitated by alcohol and the other by insanity, the result was not what it might have been. Renewed madness was already darkening Charles’s mind when he arrived and in the brief intervals when he was lucid, Wenceslas was drunk.”

164. “Owing to the disabilities of the two major sovereigns, one incapacitated by alcohol and the other by insanity, the result was not what it might have been. Renewed madness was already darkening Charles’s mind when he arrived and in the brief intervals when he was lucid, Wenceslas was drunk.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “For a knight to ride in a carriage was against the principles of chivalry and he never under any circumstances rode a mare.”

165. “For a knight to ride in a carriage was against the principles of chivalry and he never under any circumstances rode a mare.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Balfour did, in fact, hold certain basic convictions, but he could see arguments on both sides of a matter, which is the penalty of the thoughtful man.”

166. “Balfour did, in fact, hold certain basic convictions, but he could see arguments on both sides of a matter, which is the penalty of the thoughtful man.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “In village games, players with hands tied behind them competed to kill a cat nailed to a post by battering it to death with their heads, at the risk of cheeks ripped open or eyes scratched out by the frantic animal’s claws. Trumpets enhanced the excitement.”

167. “In village games, players with hands tied behind them competed to kill a cat nailed to a post by battering it to death with their heads, at the risk of cheeks ripped open or eyes scratched out by the frantic animal’s claws. Trumpets enhanced the excitement.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.”

168. “To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “All human temperaments were considered to belong to one or another of the four humors – sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic.”

169. “All human temperaments were considered to belong to one or another of the four humors – sanguine, phlegmatic, choleric, and melancholic.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “The policy of the victors after World War II in contrast to the Treaty of Versailles and the reparations exacted after World War I is an actual case of learning from experience and putting what was learned into practice – an opportunity that does not often present itself. The occupation of Japan according to a post-surrender policy drafted in Washington, approved by the Allies and largely carried out by Americans, was a remarkable exercise.”

170. “The policy of the victors after World War II in contrast to the Treaty of Versailles and the reparations exacted after World War I is an actual case of learning from experience and putting what was learned into practice – an opportunity that does not often present itself. The occupation of Japan according to a post-surrender policy drafted in Washington, approved by the Allies and largely carried out by Americans, was a remarkable exercise.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “In history this is exactly the same as in the daily newspaper. The normal does not make news.”

171. “In history this is exactly the same as in the daily newspaper. The normal does not make news.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.”

172. “Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Medieval political structure was ideally a contract exchanging service and loyalty in return for protection, justice, and order.”

173. “Medieval political structure was ideally a contract exchanging service and loyalty in return for protection, justice, and order.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham.”

174. “Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “When death slowed production, goods became scarce and prices soared. In France the price of wheat increased fourfold by 1350. At the same time the shortage of labor brought the plague’s greatest social disruption – a concerted demand for higher wages. Peasants as well as artisans, craftsmen, clerks, and priests discovered the lever of their own scarcity.”

175. “When death slowed production, goods became scarce and prices soared. In France the price of wheat increased fourfold by 1350. At the same time the shortage of labor brought the plague’s greatest social disruption – a concerted demand for higher wages. Peasants as well as artisans, craftsmen, clerks, and priests discovered the lever of their own scarcity.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Nevertheless, Schlieffen decided, in the event of war, to attack France by way of Belgium.”

176. “Nevertheless, Schlieffen decided, in the event of war, to attack France by way of Belgium.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “They were deaf to disaffection, blind to the alternative ideas it gave rise to, blandly impervious to challenge, unconcerned by the dismay at their misconduct and the rising wrath at their misgovernment, fixed in refusal to change, almost stupidly stubborn in maintaining a corrupt existing system. They could not change it because they were part of it, grew out of it, depended on it.”

177. “They were deaf to disaffection, blind to the alternative ideas it gave rise to, blandly impervious to challenge, unconcerned by the dismay at their misconduct and the rising wrath at their misgovernment, fixed in refusal to change, almost stupidly stubborn in maintaining a corrupt existing system. They could not change it because they were part of it, grew out of it, depended on it.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Devout or not, all owned and carried Books of Hours, the characteristic fashionable religious possession of the 14th century noble.”

178. “Devout or not, all owned and carried Books of Hours, the characteristic fashionable religious possession of the 14th century noble.”

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Barbara W. Tuchman Quote: “Chairs were few; even kings and popes received ambassadors sitting on beds furnished with elaborate curtains and spreads;.”

179. “Chairs were few; even kings and popes received ambassadors sitting on beds furnished with elaborate curtains and spreads;.”

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