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History is about arrogance, vanity and vapidity — who better than me to present it?

— David Starkey

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"By their fruits you shall know them." I always thought Jesus was a rotten theologian, but he is jolly good at politics.

Freedom of speech wasn’t won by being nice, it has been won by struggle with religion.

English national identity is too important to be left to the loons of the BNP and the EDL [English Defence League].

If you think about it, Alex Salmond is a democratic Caledonian Hitler, although some would say Hitler was more democratically elected.

The determination is to replace the Holocaust with slavery. In other words, this is why Jews are under such attack from the left, there’s jealousy, fundamentally. There is jealousy of the moral primacy of the Holocaust and a determination to replace it with slavery.

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce Ulysses (1922)

If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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