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Society’s revenge matched its fright.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Everything took on the color of blood.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
A minister’s (cabinet member’s) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
As there would be no more inheritance, there would be no more greed. Peter Kropotkin
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Duty was not untinged by ambition.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The affair made men feel larger than life.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain’s rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Even his own speeches bored him.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Diplomacy’s primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
He believed that rank without power was a sham.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Each one of us is serious individually, but together we become frivolous.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to “receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. “That’s a curious view, not uninteresting.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The scene is France. The theater is the world.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
England’s traditional tolerance was outraged at last.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was “the only book which allowed him to forget politics.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Isolation might be more hazardous than splendor.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: “Learn from socialism, but don’t join it.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The Englishman, as an American observed, felt himself the best-governed citizen in the world, even when in opposition he believed the incumbents were ruining the country.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn’t responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
What other country has had the privilege of making the world’s heart beat faster?
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
He accomplished wonders of diplomacy on the principle, never give way, and never give offense.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
William McKinley was a man made to be managed.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Everything interested him and everything excited him.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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