Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
Barbara TuchmanWhat 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 Tuchmanin the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight
Barbara Tuchman