Barbara Tuchman Quotes About Power

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Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
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Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.131, Crux Publishing Ltd

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Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.
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Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.382, Random House

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If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.
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Barbara W. Tuchman (2017). “Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-1945”, p.551, Random House

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Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.
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The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
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Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution”, p.65, Random House

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