Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

"Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present."
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"Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"When 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, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher"
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed"
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Everything took on the color of blood."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"The scene is France. The theater is the world."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Even his own speeches bored him."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"Duty was not untinged by ambition."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
"A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done."
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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