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.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

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

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.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

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.