Barbara W. Tuchman

"War is the unfolding of miscalculations."

"The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care."

"Society's revenge matched its fright."

"Proper society did not think about MAKING money, only about spending it."

"That he survived, and indeed returned to government, was one of man's occasional triumphs over medicine."