• When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.

  Source: A Distant Mirror

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian 1912-1989
  - +

   0

See all quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman

Subjects in these quotes:

1. reproached
2. knowledge
3. answered
4. honored
5. country
6. prosper

Similar authors

• Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian 64
• Carroll Quigley
  American historian and theorist 48
• Carter G. Woodson
  American historian, author and journalist 31
• Bernard Bailyn
  American historian, author, and academic 23
• Henry Brooks Adams
  American historian 21
• Albert Bushnell Hart
  American historian, writer, and editor 15
• Bruce Catton
  American historian and journalist 13
• Daniel J. Boorstin
  American historian 12

When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper. by : Barbara W. Tuchman

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations