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" All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how. "

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" It was in the 20th century that national sovereignty really ruled the roost, and the E.U. was formed to cure that. "

" In the 21st century, there will probably be a reflex against the disintegration of traditional European culture. What started as a reaction will come full circle, and there will be a return to the roots. "

" It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman. "

" Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order. "

" The United Kingdom is not, and never has been, a nation state. "

" There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity. "

" People don't see very often their death coming... Look at the French Revolution: The king of France was thinking in the 1780s, 'We're doing rather better than my father in the 1770s.' "

" Every austerity measure that Cameron and George Osborne make is being presented in Scotland as the English starving us. "

" In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins to oppress the general population, in some ways more harshly than it had happened before. "

" The historical profession is nowhere famous for its tolerance, but there are not many countries where historians can expect to pay for their opinions with penal servitude or the firing squad. "

" Our mental maps are distorted by who are the 'winners' of history and who are the powers of today. "

" The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be. "

" There is history in condoms, there is history in lampshades, there is history in everything. "

" I wanted to produce a book that would demonstrate not only the rich diversity of people who answered to Anders's command but also the extraordinary variety of their experiences and emotions: from death to despair, fear and longings and eventually to hope. "

" Fifty years would seem to be time enough to prepare a definitive history of the Second World War. In an age of instant data-gathering, one might think that the historians could have arrived at a consensus for interpreting the main events of the war. In reality, no such consensus exists. "

" Poland is the natural bridge between East and West. "

" I always needle a bit when people say I'm a champion of the Poles, because I've always had a very multinational view of Poland. "

" Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit. "

" Bulgaria was the only Axis country to deflect insistent German demands for the deportation of its Jews. "

" The 'politics of memory' policy appears to work largely by insinuation. "

" So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land. "

" I don't see why a book shouldn't be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time. "

" States seem to have a natural life cycle, and anything can occur to change them into something else, and that something might be no bad thing. "

" It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality. "

" The one certainly for anyone in the path of an avalanche is this: standing still is not an option. "

" I find myself sick to death, tired of arguing about details with people who don't know basic facts. "

" The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact. "

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" Winners of wars get a standing start in the post-war stakes of remembrance. "