01UndatedStrong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
03UndatedWhy, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
04UndatedIrritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
05UndatedEven the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
07UndatedThe overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas ReedBarbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
08UndatedHumanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John FisherBarbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
09UndatedNo one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
10UndatedIf they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
11UndatedWhen meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. "That's a curious view, not uninteresting.Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
12UndatedAwful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
13UndatedThe fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise.Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
17UndatedPolicy was not reconsidered because the governing group had no habit of purposeful consultation.Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
18UndatedIn proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
19UndatedOur misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
20UndatedOne English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was "the only book which allowed him to forget politics.Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
21UndatedChronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.Barbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
23UndatedHis only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard ShawBarbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
24UndatedHe never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope AlexanderBarbara W. Tuchman / quote ↗
