Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.
A. J. P. TaylorLike most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A. J. P. TaylorLenin 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.
A. J. P. Taylor