Barbara W. Tuchman

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

Books are humanity in print.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in

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

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.

Society's revenge matched its fright.

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

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.

Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.

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

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.

He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.