All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left 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.

The Foreign Office knows no secrets.

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

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.