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

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

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

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

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.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.