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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.

Hero History Strong

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

Peace Political War

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Caves Giving May

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

Names Past People

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.

Able Fighting War

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

Ifs Men Respect Each Other

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

Bismarck Fighting War

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

Convincing Events History

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

Certainty Doubt Uncertain

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

Army Peace War

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 traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

Heaven Political Years

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

Break Out Peace War

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

Past Rounds Way

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

Establishment Peace Ubuntu

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

History War Witty

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

Communism Crusades Fake People

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

Caves Differences Freedom

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

Doe History Winning

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

Fascism Littles Rage

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

England Looks Vices