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.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

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

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

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

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