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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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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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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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 present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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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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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
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The Foreign Office knows no secrets.
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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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We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.
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The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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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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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 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 great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
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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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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
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