Andrew Roberts Quotes
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It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, meditation.
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One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts".
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I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.
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The future is a matter of contempt for those with courage. - Napoleon Bonaparte.
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When you make some great mistake,’ he philosophized, ‘it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.
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When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.
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What finally scuppered Napoleon's Europe was of course the fatal combination of the English Channel and the Russian winter; the same unlikely partnership that also did for Hitler's Europe.
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Nothing short of military defeat demoralizes a country so totally as hyper-inflation, and the Directory.