There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to y….

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformi….

The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide..

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism..

The Foreign Office knows no secrets..

History is the great propagator of doubt..

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pl….

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What ….

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past..

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fough….

No war is inevitable until it breaks out..

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions..

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian win….

Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it ….

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves..

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery..

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left ….

If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went r….

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own..

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one..

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight..