A. J. P. Taylor - War Quotes

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

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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.

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The First World War had begun – imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.

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In the Second World War the British people came of age. This was a people's war…Few now sang Land of Hope and Glory. Few even sang England Arise. England had risen all the same.

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Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

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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.

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