History is the great propagator of doubt.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

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.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.