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> [David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/david-irving-has-consistenly-applied-an-evidential-double-standard/)

[David Cannadine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cannadine/)

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## Other authors on Dresden

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## More by David Cannadine

> [Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/cruel-and-paradoxical-though-it-undoubtedly-is-the-record-shows-that/)

[David Cannadine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cannadine/)

> [Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/lord-beaverbrook-was-fundamentally-a-lonely-man-with-a-low-sense-of/)

[David Cannadine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cannadine/)

> [The older I get the more I'm convinced that it's the purpose of politicians and journalists to say the world is very simple, whereas…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/the-older-i-get-the-more-i-m-convinced-that-it-s-the-purpose-of/)

[David Cannadine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cannadine/)

> [For those who reject it, the Victorian experience is something to feel embarrassed about, to apologise for, to escape from, and never to repeat.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/for-those-who-reject-it-the-victorian-experience-is-something-to-feel/)

[David Cannadine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cannadine/)

> [Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/charitable-endeavour-exalts-the-prestige-and-the-status-of-the-giver/)

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> [Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied, it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/prince-charles-s-concern-for-the-underprivileged-and-disadvantaged/)

[David Cannadine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cannadine/)

> [More attention should have been given to the fundamental transformation which took place during Queen Victoria's reign, from ruling sovereign to constitutional monarch. Again,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/more-attention-should-have-been-given-to-the-fundamental/)

[David Cannadine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cannadine/)

> [Kitty Kelley's method, already perfected in her unauthorised and unflattering biographies of Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan, is to write bestsellers that take what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/kitty-kelley-s-method-already-perfected-in-her-unauthorised-and/)

[David Cannadine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cannadine/)

> [David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/david-irving-has-consistenly-applied-an-evidential-double-standard/)

[David Cannadine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cannadine/)

> [For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/for-all-her-active-goodness-florence-nightingale-herself-was-far-from/)

[David Cannadine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-cannadine/)

> [On several occasions, we are informed that the professional ideal 'took steps', 'organised assaults', and 'selected social problems'. But this is anthropomorphic metaphor implausibly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/on-several-occasions-we-are-informed-that-the-professional-ideal-took/)

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> [Vernon Bogdanor's account The Monarchy and the Constitution is written as much in the shadow of Edmund Burke as it is of Walter Bagehot.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/vernon-bogdanor-s-account-the-monarchy-and-the-constitution-is/)

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> [Like sex, poverty and power, suicide may always be with us. But like them again, the actual form is takes is essentially time-specific and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/like-sex-poverty-and-power-suicide-may-always-be-with-us-but-like/)

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> [Scandal, it bears repeating, undermines monarchies, but rarely ends them. It may be true that, according to a recent editorial in the New York…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/scandal-it-bears-repeating-undermines-monarchies-but-rarely-ends-them/)

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> [It is impossible not to be moved by the verve, courage and elan with Churchill attacked his last and ultimately invincible enemy, old age…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-cannadine/it-is-impossible-not-to-be-moved-by-the-verve-courage-and-elan-with/)

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