Books are humanity in print.

- Barbara Tuchman

In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, …

- Barbara Tuchman

In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to…

- Barbara Tuchman

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

- Barbara Tuchman

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

- Barbara Tuchman

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

- Barbara Tuchman

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

- Barbara Tuchman

Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation i…

- Barbara Tuchman

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.

- Barbara Tuchman