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

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and define it.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Connection" was the cement of the governing class.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Enormity of the stakes became the new self-hypnosis.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Even his own speeches bored him.

— Barbara W. Tuchman