The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way [Margaret Thatcher] did.

History offers us vicarious experience. It allows the youngest student to possess the ground equally with his elders; without a knowledge of history to give him a context for present events, he is at the mercy of every social misdiagnosis handed to him.

[Margaret Thatcher] admitted to being the daughter of her father but not the daughter of her mother!

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.