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

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.

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

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.

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

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

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