People often of masterful intelligence, trained usually in law or economics or perhaps in political science, who have led their governments into disastrous decisions and miscalculations because they have no awareness whatever of the historical background, the cultural universe, of the foreign societies with which they have to deal.

I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

We're not saying, 'We're politicians, trust us.' We know you don't trust us.

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

The true use of history, whether civil or military, is not to make man clever for the next time, it is to make him wise forever.

What is Parliament for if it is not to be a means to make ministers accountable for the services for which they are responsible.

We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other