Margaret MacMillan Quotes

We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do.

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

In the fluid world of 1919, it was possible to dream of great change, or have nightmares about the collapse of order.

The glories of the past compensated for the imperfections of the present.