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The quotations of

Niall Ferguson

British historian

born 1964

4 quotes, most often on History.

Australia was the eighteenth-century equivalent of Mars.
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003), Chapter 2, “White Plague” (p. 103)
- History
The British Empire was the nearest thing there has ever been to a world government. Yet its mode of operation was a triumph of minimalism.
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World (2003), Introduction, p. xxvii
- Government
- History
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It’s very restful – because you read. There’s some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction.
“The NS Interview: Niall Ferguson”, New Statesman (July 23, 2010).
- History
So much of liberalism in its classical sense is taken for granted in the West today and even disrespected. We take freedom for granted, and because of this we don’t understand how incredibly vulnerable it is.
Interview, ‘Westerners don’t understand how vulnerable freedom is’, The Guardian (20 February 2011)
- Freedom

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