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> [ Hitler ... lacked the \[inclination\] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/hitler-lacked-the-inclination-for-anything-more-than-the-occasional/)

[John Keegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-keegan/)

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## More by John Keegan

> [We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/we-forget-today-that-britain-still-depends-for-its-livelihood-and/)

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> [ Hitler ... lacked the \[inclination\] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/hitler-lacked-the-inclination-for-anything-more-than-the-occasional/)

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> [The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/the-historian-ought-to-be-an-educated-person-writing-for-other/)

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> [It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/it-s-a-necessary-quality-of-a-diplomat-or-a-politician-that-he-will/)

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> [Visually Agincourt is a pre-Raphaelite, perhaps better a Medici Gallery print battle - a composition of strong verticals and horizontals and a conflict of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/visually-agincourt-is-a-pre-raphaelite-perhaps-better-a-medici/)

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> [“The Second World War, when it came in 1939, was unquestionably the outcome of the First, and in large measure its continuation. Its circumstances…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/the-second-world-war-when-it-came-in-1939-was-unquestionably-the/)

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> [The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/the-second-world-war-is-the-largest-single-event-in-human-history/)

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> [“It is one of the many graveyards which are the Great War's chief heritage. The chronicle of its battles provides the dreariest literature in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/it-is-one-of-the-many-graveyards-which-are-the-great-war-s-chief/)

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> [The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/the-islam-of-the-18th-19th-and-first-half-of-the-20th-century-was-a/)

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> [Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/well-if-they-are-trying-to-kill-you-on-the-whole-they-re-the-people/)

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> [“Less than twenty years after the end of the Great War, the ‘war to end wars’ as it had come to be called at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/less-than-twenty-years-after-the-end-of-the-great-war-the-war-to-end/)

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> [I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/i-think-americans-like-the-practical-they-like-the-human-and-i-like/)

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> [“The ANZACs, clinging lost and leaderless to the hillsides, began, as the hot afternoon gave way to grey drizzle, to experience their martyrdom.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/the-anzacs-clinging-lost-and-leaderless-to-the-hillsides-began-as-the/)

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> [The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/the-leader-of-men-in-warfare-can-show-himself-to-his-followers-only/)

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> [“Rundstedt, revered throughout the German regular officer corps as its last archetypal Prussian, refused to deal with detail or to look at small-scale maps,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/rundstedt-revered-throughout-the-german-regular-officer-corps-as-its/)

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