List of Niall Ferguson Quotes

I Would Say I'm A 19th-century Liberal, Possibly Even An 18th-century One.

When I First Came To Oxford, I Struggled To Feel Comfortable In An Anglican, Public School-dominated Institution.

Why Did The Germans And Japanese Keep Fighting After 1943 When Every Rational Hope Of Victory Had Disappeared?

The Rise Of The West Is, Quite Simply, The Pre-eminent Historical Phenomenon Of The Second Half Of The Second Millennium After Christ.

If The Financial System Has A Defect, It Is That It Reflects And Magnifies What We Human Beings Are Like. Money Amplifies Our Tendency To Overreact, To Swing From Exuberance When Things Are Going Well To Deep Depression When They Go Wrong. Booms And Busts Are Products, At Root, Of Our Emotional Volatility.

You Really Struggle To Be A Successful Empire If You Are Also The World's Biggest Debtor.

When Bond Prices Fall, Interest Rates Soar, With Painful Consequences For All Borrowers.

Collaboration Is Risky. If It Fails, If The Occupation Is Wound Up Prematurely And The Bad Guys Come Back To Power, You Might Find Yourself In Some Serious Trouble.

A Historian Is Battling All The Time To Remember As Much As Possible.

I Refuse To Accept That Western Civilization Is Like Some Hopeless Old Version Of Microsoft Dos, Doomed To Freeze, Then Crash. I Still Cling To The Hope That The United States Is The Mac To Europe's Pc, And That If One Part Of The West Can Successfully Update And Reboot Itself, It's America.

The Japanese Co-prosperity Zone Began As A Racist Utopia And Ended As A Cross Between An Abbatoir, A Plantation And A Brothel.

In The Financial Sector, Those Whom The Gods Want To Destroy They First Teach Math.