107 Quotes by Margaret MacMillan

History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.

How can even the best novelist or playwright invent someone like Augustus Caesar or Catherine the Great, Galileo or Florence Nightingale? How can screenwriters create better action stories or human dramas than exist, thousand upon thousand, throughout the many centuries of recorded history?

I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a nationalistic one.

Our interest in history always reflects our own times.

I'm always wary of the lessons of the past. There's a lot of past out there, and you can draw whatever lessons you want.

A large part of Canada heads for Florida, California, and Hawaii in the winter to get away from the snow.

Canadians see the Americans as cousins. We love the same sports: Canadians are crazy about baseball and basketball, and our beloved game of hockey is played all over the U.S.

History does not produce definitive answers for all time. It is a process.

The Great War was nobody's fault - or everybody's.