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

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

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.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.

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

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