What did Barbara Tuchman mean by: To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA Copy
+ The power to command frequently causes failure to think. Feraz Zeid, October 9, 2023December 26, 2023, Barbara Tuchman, Command, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ For most people reform meant relief from ecclesiastical extortions. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Reform, Relief, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. Feraz Zeid, July 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Barbara Tuchman, Library, Muse, Shelter, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Hindsight, War, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. Feraz Zeid, June 18, 2023December 12, 2023, Barbara Tuchman, Doors, Library, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Communism, Communist, Myth, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Book, Civilization, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
+ The writer’s object is – or should be – to hold the reader’s attention. Feraz Zeid, December 27, 2023January 10, 2024, Barbara Tuchman, Attention, 0 - Barbara Tuchman Historian · USA
Have a vision but hold it lightly, wear it like a loose garment. - Gabrielle Bernstein Motivational speaker
After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment. - W. A. Criswell Pastor · USA
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear. - George R. R. Martin
The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves. - David Brooks Commentator · Canada
