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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 716e57f | executions were meant as an exercise in frightfulness according to the theory developed by the Emperor Caligula: "Oderint dum metuant" (Let them hate us as long as they fear us)." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 6f7101a | House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself. | discernment integrity leadership | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| daf977f | Talent for oratory can simulate the need for action and even thought. | rhetoric | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 82fa12b | Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it. | materialism self-gratification | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| c3b7f93 | The affair made men feel larger than life. | inspiration | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| c0b90ed | Duty was not untinged by ambition. | goal-setting leadership vocation work | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 0cfbe94 | His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction. | cynicism perseverance vulnerability | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 28a2aaf | Honor wears different coats to different eyes, | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| a8fbe14 | SO GORGEOUS WAS THE SPECTACLE on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England that the crowd waiting in hushed and black-clad awe, could not keep back gasps of admiration. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 2c03786 | Nevertheless, Schlieffen decided, in the event of war, to attack France by way of Belgium. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| b2749f7 | Sternly saving his greatest strength for the right wing, he did not yield to that vaulting ambition in his plan. But the lure of the left wing remained to tempt his successors. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| d9bfa9e | Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on [office]," he wrote to a friend, "a rottenness begins in his conduct." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 71248d6 | He believed interim reforms were necessary in order to fix the worker for his destiny. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| ec35085 | England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last. | patience | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| d913c94 | 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. | nationalism patriotism | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| d4bb376 | 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. | motivation rhetoric word-choice | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| a22222a | The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists. | curiosity depravity skepticism | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 119fb1d | Even his own speeches bored him. | charisma enthusiasm job passion vocation | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| c98f5b8 | He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience. | statesmanship | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 1eb158f | The Republic cured me of the Republic. | disillusionment | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 2af4090 | Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present. | nostalgia perspective | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 37c95e4 | Everything took on the color of blood. | bias distortion military-industrial-complex revenge | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| abac720 | The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony. | culture identity | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| e8ed53c | The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman. | persuasion rhetoric | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 451699b | 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." | discipleship humility openness | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 7032448 | Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors. | compassion leadership relationships visuals | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| e0ffb8a | All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre. | culture materialism nationalism | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| cf9626d | He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas. | compromise connection engagement evangelism | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| c41550f | Society's revenge matched its fright. | overreaction punishment terrorism | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 191bb24 | He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within. | imagery leadership optics statecraft | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| a1be849 | Had I known that these legs were to carry a Lord Chancellor, I would have taken better care of them when I was a lad. Duke of Grafton | maturation | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 711ae19 | Far from a source of suffering, their adopted faith had been a source of power. | distraction materialism | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 0b03a45 | Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital. | objectivity wishful-thinking | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 54762ed | Fate represents the fulfillment of man's expectations of himself. | passivity | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| c10fc03 | How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII | calling grace-of-god job vocation | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| ec4f868 | Something in me broke and I was never the same thereafter. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 0e7801d | One Cardinal entered his cathedral for the first time at his funeral. | ministry worldliness | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 78470f9 | Depression and despair accompanied the physical symptoms, and before the end "death is seen seated on the face." | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 25f42ad | If he had a little more brains he would be a half-wit. | Barbara W. Tuchman | ||
| 55d067c | The succession multiplied the harm. Each passed on his conception of the papacy unchanged. | conventional-wisdom detachment insulation | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 03445fa | Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham | humility openness | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 4aa7417 | To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution. | laziness myopia | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 1eba4ba | That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine. | conventional-wisdom determination | Barbara W. Tuchman | |
| 541e720 | Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government? | depravity sin | Barbara W. Tuchman |