Barbara Tuchman Quotes

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.

But on second thought, after I decreed the state of emergency, I came to the conclusion that that was impossible to achieve without bloodshed because the street protesters were full of anger and nearly out of control. This is why I thought we needed to find another way out.

History reminds us that dictators and despots arise during times of severe economic crisis.

The year 1915 was one of meager results, the advantages remaining on the side of the Central Powers, with this understanding, however: The Allies were growing stronger because Great Britain was making rapid progress in marshaling her resources for war.

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

Riots born out of political issues aren't the same as those born out of personal greed.

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.

The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

For all we have and are, For all our children’s fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate!

Soldiers quartered in a populous town will always occasion two mobs where they prevent one. They are wretched conservators of the peace.

The Yanks are coming And we won’t come back till it’s over Over there!

The people of Birmingham have a specially heavy burden for they have given the world: the curse of the present British Prime Minister [Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940.]

We were fighting a war. We did not have time for duplicate vouchers and double-entry bookkeeping. It is a hell-fired shame for everybody [on this Congressional committee] to be trying to pick flyspecks on the greatest army the world ever knew. We did more organization despite our unpreparedness than the French and the British. What do you suppose we went to war for? We went to France to win the war [World War I] and we did it.

We still have documents from the First World War that have not yet been declassified. I have no idea why. It boggles the mind.

It was not the year of union rather the year of division and force and oppression and violence. The imamate became like the kingdom of Chosroes and the caliphate like the tyranny of Caesar.

It is necessary to turn political crisis into armed crisis by performing violent actions that will force those in power to transform the military situation into a political situation. That will alienate the masses, who, from then on, will revolt against the army and the police and blame them for this state of things.

The commotions that have taken place in America, as far as they are yet known to me, offer nothing threatening. They are a proof that the people have liberty enough, and I could not wish them less than they have. If the happiness of the mass of the people can be secured at the expense of a little tempest now and then, or even of a little blood, it will be a precious purchase.

To-day the Peace Treaty was ratified at Paris; the War is over. A terrible era begins for Europe, like the gathering of clouds before a storm, and it will end in an explosion probably more terrible than that of the World War. In Germany there are all the signs of a continuing growth of nationalism.

Archduke found alive, World War a Mistake

The US has always taken velvet revolution into consideration by promoting Western culture in the society and by causing strife between people and the government through propaganda, organizing certain individuals, psychological warfare and making intentional use of media, intellectual circles, university student's establishments and feminism movements in order to implement its interfering policies.