English - Historian | May 15, 1934 - August 2, 2012
We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.
John Keegan
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I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
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The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
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Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?
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Nobody should teach anywhere for 25 years, but I did.
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I don't think that what's going on in Bosnia is political activity. It's partly political, but it's partly atavistic as well.
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Even a pacifist should admire the military virtues.
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I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.
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I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.
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If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
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Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.
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