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Great Quotes by A J P Taylor
- The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
- Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power…
- Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot…
- Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought.…
- History is the great propagator of doubt.
- In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went…
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