As history reminds us again and again, wars are not always made on the basis of rational calculations: often the contrary. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
It took a world war, between 1914 and 1918, to draw the United States into a deeper and more sustained relationship with… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in war, but especially its effects on society, which means bringing in the voices of women, which aren't… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Women are so much a part of war, even if they tend to see another side of it. To say they don't… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
If you start thinking war is inevitable, then in your own times, you don't resist it as strongly as you should. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the balance between big currents in history - the economies, the ideologies, social structures, and so on - and… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
There was that argument that if we had more women in positions of authority, the world would be a nicer place. And… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
By the start of August 1914, it was dawning on the British that a major war was about to break out on… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
American diplomats worked closely with the League of Nations. The United States used its considerable influence to settle some of the outstanding… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don't agree. If you… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“told the Reichstag that the age of “Cabinet” wars, that is wars determined by rulers for limited ends, was over: “All we… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“We have engrossed to ourselves, in a time when other powerful nations were paralysed by barbarism or internal war, an altogether disproportionate… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
In my view, Germany could and should have made reparations for its aggression in World War I - but was the risk… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
It is true that large parts of the world have not had to endure state-to-state wars for decades. The majority of the… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Theodore Roosevelt's policy to build a two-ocean navy confirmed that the old-style isolationism of the founders had not survived the modern, increasingly globalized world. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Individual lives remind us that there is something called a common humanity and that, over the centuries, there have been people who have lived… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
The 1898 annexation of the Hawaiian Islands merely formally recognized what had long been American domination. — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“There are only two perfectly useless things in the world,” he quipped. “One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré!” — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Nationalist movements often overlapped with economic and class issues: Rumanian and Ruthenian peasants, for example, challenged their Hungarian and Polish landlords.” — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
How curious that such an outsize man, in physique as well as personality, should be remembered today mainly for giving his name to a… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“Part of Nietzsche’s appeal was that it was easy to read a great deal into his work, and people including socialists, vegetarians, feminists, conservatives… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
If we do not, as historians, write the history of great events as well as the small stories that make up the past, others… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
Many in the English-speaking world came to agree with the Germans that the Treaty of Versailles, and the reparations in particular, were unjust, and… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
