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.

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

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

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

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.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.