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.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

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.

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

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