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There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of…
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The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
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No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by…
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Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.
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We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.
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It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from…
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Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of…
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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed…
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A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
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But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
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History provides no precise guidelines.
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Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength…
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No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not…
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The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead…
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Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt…
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He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed,…
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In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in…
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This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure…
— Unknown Author
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Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than…
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Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner…
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A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a…
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I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not…
— Douglas Hurd
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