The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War Quotes.

1. "The proud tower built up through the great age of European civilization was an edifice of grandeur and passion, of riches and beauty and dark cellars. Its inhabitants lived, as compared to a later time, with more self-reliance, more confidence, more hope; greater magnificence, extravagance and elegance; more careless ease, more gaiety, more pleasure in each other's company and conversation, more injustice and hypocrisy, more misery and want, more sentiment including false sentiment, less sufferance of mediocrity, more dignity in work, more delight in nature, more zest. The Old World had much that has since been lost, whatever may have been gained. Looking back on it from 1915, Emile Verhaeren, the Belgian Socialist poet, dedicated his pages, "With emotion, to the man I used to be."
- Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War

2. "Without a country, you are the basket of humanity."
- Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War

3. "Advice to young Samuel Gompers that might apply in many other areas: "Learn from socialism, but don't join it."
- Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War

4. "Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside."
- Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War

5. "The overpowering unimportance of this MAKES ME SPEECHLESS. – Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas Reed"
- Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War

6. "One aristocratic leader's club was known for, "an atmosphere of solemn tranquility, in which reading, dozing, and meditation took precedence over conversation."
- Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War

7. "I command, or I keep quiet." Napoleon"
- Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War

8. "In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great."
- Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War

9. "William McKinley was a man made to be managed."
- Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War

10. "The English patrician bloomed in his natural climate."
- Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War