Quotes by Tuchman, Barbara

Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucra >>

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. They are of >>

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it >>

Quotations about New World

Then hail! thou noble conqueror! That, when tyranny oppressed, hewed f >>

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon the >>

I have, indeed, even omitted facts, which, on account of their singula >>

The open frontier, the hardships of homesteading from scratch, the wealth of natural resources, the whole vast challenge of a continent waiting to be exploited, combined to produce a prevailing materialism and an American drive bent as much, if not more, on money, property, and power than was true of the Old World from which we had fled.

Tuchman, Barbara