Quote by Michael Oakeshott

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

Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon free trade…

— Kenneth O. Morgan

England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years… Such is the fate of rich countries.. .Not…

— Adolf Hitler

“with the centenary of 1914 rapidly approaching it is high time to stop regarding the first world war as current affairs and douglas haig…

— Gary Sheffield

“To conclude this personal note, I, William Joyce, will merely say that I left England because I would not fight for Jewry against the…

— Anonymous

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

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

— N. R. Narayana Murthy

“Far from shocking the rulers of Europe, the war that erupted in August 1914 was widely anticipated, rigorously rehearsed, immensely resourced and meticulously planned.”

— Paul Ham

“Neither London nor Paris had gone to war in 1914 with the aim of creating a ‘Europe of nations’, and it was only from…

— Robert Gerwarth

“Unemployment, hard times, were growing in 1914. Could guns divert attention and create some national consensus against an external enemy? It surely was a…

— Howard Zinn

“What we see in the period 1870–1914 is at best a stabilization of inequality at an extremely high level, and in certain respects an…

— Thomas Piketty

Industrialization came to England but has since left.

— P. J. O'Rourke