Quotes About Max Hastings

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.

American dismay in the face of those early defeats was assuaged by skilful propaganda. The United States had much less to lose in the East than did the British Empire.

Both Britain's most distinguished earlier war leaders, Pitt the Elder and Younger, were responsible for graver strategic follies than himself.

Near a large inn, the 'Roter Krug,' stood a barn and to each of its two doors a naked woman was nailed through the hands, in a crucified posture.

Beveridge Report, published in November 1942, which laid the foundations of Britain's postwar welfare state.

The damage to their prestige and confidence would have been immense, and Churchill might not have survived as prime minister through 1941.

On 4 January 1875 he filed his first Times despatch, with the dateline: 'Under the Old Tree of Aryah, Tropical Africa'.

Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a European war)