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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.
A. J. P. Taylor
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A. J. P. Taylor
Age: 84 †
Born: 1906
Born: March 25
Died: 1990
Died: September 7
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
Journalist
University Teacher
Alan John Percivale Taylor
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George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.
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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 moment in women's emancipation.
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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 a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
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All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
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Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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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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One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
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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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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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