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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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
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Alan John Percivale Taylor
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
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The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.
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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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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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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
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We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.
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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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Knowledge breeds doubt, not certainty, And the more we know the more uncertain we become.
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A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
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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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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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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 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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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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The Foreign Office knows no secrets.
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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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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
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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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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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