August Quote by Kenneth O. Morgan

The truth is that the free movement of goods, people, and money that developed under British hegemony between 1870 and 1913 - the first…

— Ha-Joon Chang

If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

The world before 1914 was already a world in which the welfare of each individual nation was inextricably bound up with the prosperity of…

— Arthur Henderson

By the start of August 1914, it was dawning on the British that a major war was about to break out on mainland Europe.…

— Margaret MacMillan

In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later,…

— Mark Steyn

“England in August 1914 was more of a state than she was during the great industrial strikes of 1911–1912.”

— Michael Oakeshott

“Without the changes in political institutions and political power similar to those that emerged in England after 1688, there was little chance for absolutist…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against…

— Anthony Storr

When the Industrial Revolution started, the amount of carbon sitting underneath Britain in the form of coal was as big as the amount of…

— David J. C. MacKay

Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being…

— A. J. P. Taylor

“Commentary would come to life in 1945 amid widespread predictions that mass unemployment would resume as soon as war production ebbed. But it wouldn’t…

— Benjamin Balint