‘Personally, having lived through all these European disturbances and studied carefully their causes, I am of the opinion that if the Allies at the peace table at Versailles had not imagined that the sweeping away of long-established dynasties was a form of progress, and if they had allowed a Hohenzollern, a Wittelsbach, and a Habsburg to return to their thrones, there would have been no Hitler.’
Churchill: A Life, by Martin Gilbert, Henry Holt and Company, 1991, p. 837.
Short Stories on Honor, Chivalry, and the World of Nobility—no. 591