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 my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power..

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

Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become..

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 ….

The Foreign Office knows no secrets..

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

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

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….

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….

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

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, o….

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else..

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

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….

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour..

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long..

American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed th….

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….

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 ….