(17 quotes found)
“Books are humanity in print.”
Barbara W. Tuchman
“To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.”
“Honor wears different coats to different eyes.”
“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. They are engines of change, windows on the world, lighthouses erected in the sea of time.”
“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”
“Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.”
“The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.”
“Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.”
“Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.”
