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.

History is the great propagator of doubt.

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.

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

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

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.

We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.