Margaret MacMillan

She is warden designate of St. Antony's College at Oxford University.

[on the 1914-18 World War] If we want to point fingers from the twenty-first century, we can accuse those who took Europe into war of two things. First, a failure of imagination in not seeing how destructive such a conflict would be, and second, their lack of courage to stand up to those who said there was no choice left but to go to war. There are always choices.