Barbara Tuchman

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. "

"Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. "

"Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. "

"History is the unfolding of miscalculation. "

"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. "