Barbara W. Tuchman said this quote

“ Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway. ”

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A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: Live for that better day.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Books are humanity in print.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman