Niall Ferguson Quotes
It is when empires begin to fall, that they tend to cause the most mayhem.
Niall Ferguson, Historian, Speech, World Affairs Council. September 27, 2006
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1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor. England had occupied Iraq, expecting to be welcomed by the natives, but like the George W. Bush ill-fated invasion almost a century afterward calls for withdrawal were met by the same rationale for maintaining the occupation. The English policy makers like the Bush administration were expecting a more welcoming reaction. See {585250}.
The Sultan of Turkey had just committed the Empire to a jihad against Britain in support of Germany in WWI: 1st Earl of Oxford
the modern believe is that democracies are not prone to war, especially against other democracies. Seward, and some others believe that democracies can be pushed into war by politicians you do so for partisan political advantage. Politicians often have to show how tough they are.
Vidal was one of the first who suggested that America may be in a state of decline. He deliberately used the language of the famous, classic work by Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Niall Campbell Ferguson is a Scottish historian and the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Previously, he was a professor at Harvard University, the London School of Economics and New York University, visiting professor at New College of the Humanities and senior research fellow at Jesus College, Oxford.
