Feel Quotes

Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Niall Ferguson

British

April 18, 1964

Historian

dolomites mountains italy alpine

I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.

Tags: Would Say Even

I can't think of anything I would rather do with my money than buy my children the best possible education.

Tags: Best Money Education

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

Tags: After Quite Second

Risk models are a substitute for historical knowledge, because they tend to work with just three years' worth of data. But three years is not a long time in financial history.

Tags: Time Work 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.

Tags: You Me About

The real point of me isn't that I'm good looking. It's that I'm clever. I've got a brain! I would rather be called a highly intelligent historian than a gorgeous pouting one.

Tags: Good Me Than

It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it's immoral to violate the sovereignty of another state. But if the effect of that is to bring people in that country economic and political freedom, to raise their standard of living, to increase their life expectancy, then don't rule it out.

Tags: Freedom People Out