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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…
• The tragedy of 9/11 galvanised the American superpower into action, leaving us in Europe divided in its wake.
• No military timetable should compel war when a successful outcome, namely a disarmed Iraq may be feasible without war, for example by…
• Ten Downing Street is a house, not an office. That is its most important characteristic.
• We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgment on the past.
• It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from…
• Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of…
• There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed…
• A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
• But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.
• History provides no precise guidelines.
• 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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