Top 30 A. J. P. Taylor Quotes (2024 Update)

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”

1. “No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “No war is inevitable until it breaks out.”

2. “No war is inevitable until it breaks out.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

3. “Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.”

4. “Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour.”

5. “We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.”

6. “Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “Bismarck fought ‘necessary’ wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight ‘just’ wars and kill millions.”

7. “Bismarck fought ‘necessary’ wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight ‘just’ wars and kill millions.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.”

8. “Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.”

9. “The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.”

10. “History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”

11. “Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “The Foreign Office knows no secrets.”

12. “The Foreign Office knows no secrets.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.”

13. “George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.”

14. “History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.”

15. “There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

16. “If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.”

17. “Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “All other forms of history – economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology – seem to me history with the history left out.”

18. “All other forms of history – economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology – seem to me history with the history left out.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.”

19. “A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.”

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A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism ‘inevitably’ caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”

20. “Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism ‘inevitably’ caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

21. “In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...”

22. “The God of Battles will throw the dice that decide...”

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A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “Psychoanalysts believe that the only “normal” people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.”

23. “Psychoanalysts believe that the only “normal” people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer – the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.”

24. “In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer – the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”

25. “When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “History is the great propagator of doubt.”

26. “History is the great propagator of doubt.”

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A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”

27. “The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”

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A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women’s emancipation.”

28. “The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women’s emancipation.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.”

29. “The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “A racing tipster who only reached Hitler’s level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.”

30. “A racing tipster who only reached Hitler’s level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.”

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A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.”

31. “If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”

32. “One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn’t matter much. An admirable feeling.”

33. “There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn’t matter much. An admirable feeling.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

A. J. P. Taylor Quote: “The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

34. “The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

— A. J. P. Taylor

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