But I'm English. We Don't Do Uplifting.

If We Have Learned Nothing Else From The 20th Century, We Should At Least Have Grasped That The More Perfect The Answer, The More Terrifying Its Consequences. Incremental Improvements Upon Unsatisfactory Circumstances Are The Best That We Can Hope For, And Probably All We Should Seek.

American Social Arrangements, Economic Arrangements, The Degree Of Inequality In American Life, The Relatively Small Role Played By The Government In American Public Life And So Forth, Compares To Exactly The Opposite Conditions In Most Of The European Societies.

Social Democracy Does Not Represent An Ideal Future; It Does Not Even Represent The Ideal Past.

I Don't Believe That One Should Have One-size-fits-all Moral Rules For International Political Action.

My History Writing Was Based On What I Saw In Strange, Exotic Places Rather Than Just Reading Books.