You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor.
Niall FergusonIn Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of forced resettlement.
Niall FergusonBetween 1980 and 2000 the number of patents registered in Israel was 7652 compared with 367 for all the Arab countries combined.
Niall FergusonThe British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.
Niall FergusonI refuse to accept that Western civilization is like some hopeless old version of Microsoft DOS, doomed to freeze, then crash. I still cling to the hope that the United States is the Mac to Europe's PC, and that if one part of the West can successfully update and reboot itself, it's America.
Niall Ferguson