The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. _ Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed
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Barbara W. Tuchman
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
Practicing History: Selected Essays
The First Salute
The Guns of August
The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
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Everything took on the color of blood.
Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.
Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.
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.
Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions.
All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.
Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?
The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.
The scene is France. The theater is the world.
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.
No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.