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

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

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.

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

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

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.