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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
A. J. P. Taylor
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A. J. P. Taylor
Age: 84 †
Born: 1906
Born: March 25
Died: 1990
Died: September 7
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Historian Of The Modern Age
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Alan John Percivale Taylor
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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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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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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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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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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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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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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 greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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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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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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American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
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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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The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.
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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.
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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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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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In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
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