“ One of the chief values reading history, this is the author, is its capacity to "provoke renegade thoughts". Andrew Roberts
“ The Idea of the University, Cardinal John Henry Newman’s great work defining how the republic of the mind should be governed, hailed the importance of increasing the breadth of understanding, promotin… Andrew Roberts
“ For a man who was to exhibit such acute political sharpness later in his career, Napoleon completely misread the revolution's opening stages. 'I repeat what I have said to you,' he wrote to Joseph on… Andrew Roberts
“ No man is considered just and virtuous who does not know whence he came and wither he is going. – Napoleon Andrew Roberts
“ His constant references to the ancient world have the effect of giving ordinary soldiers a sense of their lives. Andrew Roberts
