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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
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Alan John Percivale Taylor
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Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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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.
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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 happened next?
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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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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 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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Psychoanalysts believe that the only normal people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
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The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.
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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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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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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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History is the great propagator of doubt.
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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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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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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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