Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
Barbara TuchmanThe appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
Barbara TuchmanThe unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard
Barbara TuchmanNo less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.
Barbara Tuchman