A. J. P. Taylor Quotes About Past
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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.
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Every historian loves the past or should do. If not, he has mistaken his vocation; but it is a short step from loving the past to regretting that it has ever changed. Conservatism is our greatest trade-risk; and we run psychoanalysts close in the belief that the only "normal" people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anybody else.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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