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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

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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 round crying for a hero.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

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

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

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

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

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When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.

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

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

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

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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 pleasure, not for instruction.

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

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