Barbara Tuchman Quotes
To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states.
Barbara Tuchman, 1912-1989, Historian, A Distant Mirror, 1978
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Manes took a great deal of flack over reports that he had referred to New York Mayor, Edward Koch, in derogatory terms:
This statement for many illustrates perfectly the stubbornness and the intransigence of the Spanish at the time.
Politics is peculiar in the sense that most things are seen as black or white. In most other areas of human endeavor, people change, not because the old way was incorrect, but because the new way might be better. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity did not totally invalidate the physics of Issac Newton; it just improved on it in some areas.
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman was an American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
