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

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

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.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

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