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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam quotes about leadership
Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Connection” was the cement of the governing class.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
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