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A J P Taylor has 37 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
• The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
• Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
• Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
• If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they…
• Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
• A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
• The Foreign Office knows no secrets.
• Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.
• There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book…
• Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining…
• Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

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