Occupation: Historian Birth: March 25, 1906 Death: September 7, 1990
If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves..
The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round..
We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, eve….
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….
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery..
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting..
Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness..
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated….
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long..
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history..
The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive mome….
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….
History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events..
Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become..
The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide..
History is the great propagator of doubt..
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 ….
American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed th….
Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help havin….
We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour..
Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions..