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

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.

Lenin 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.

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

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