A master of improvised speech and improvised policies..

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….

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

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently..

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history..

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

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

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events..

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness..

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones..

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

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic..

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

No war is inevitable until it breaks out..

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting..

The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round..

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….

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..

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

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….

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….