Top 3 Timothy C.W. Blanning Quotes
#1. Anything the Austrians could do, the Prussians could do better.
#2. By the eighteenth century many were showing all the negative conservatism of a vested interest overtaken by events: dogged devotion to old techniques, suspicion of innovation, resentment of competition and xenophobia.
#3. By its durability this settlement proved that conservative liberty is an oxymoron, not a contradiction in terms.