He had become, through a combination of heritage and character, a keeper of the national conscience.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

He had the ruthlessness of uninterrupted success.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it." Pope Alexander

— Barbara W. Tuchman

He seemed less in need of a secretary than of someone to listen to him.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

He wanted AFFIRMATION rather than INFORMATION.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction.

— Barbara W. Tuchman

His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw

— Barbara W. Tuchman