A. J. P. Taylor Quotes

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times. - A. J. P. Taylor quote.

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times.
— A. J. P. Taylor English History, 1914–15

Human blunders...usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
— A. J. P. Taylor The Origins of the Second World War

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The politician performs upon the stage; the historian looks behind the scenery. - A. J. P. Taylor quote.

The politician performs upon the stage; the historian looks behind the scenery.
— A. J. P. Taylor Englishmen and Others

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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 The Trouble Makers: Dissent Over Foreign Policy, 1792–1939

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