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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 has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.

A. J. P. Taylor's Popular Quotes

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…

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

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

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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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