Top 37 Quotes by Niall Ferguson

President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness.

It's not surprising so many people end up with credit-card debts. Saving for your retirement and buying a house are difficult things, and we don't educate people about them at all.

The British press has an insatiable appetite for making public things that should be private. It's a prurience that I've never understood.

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.

What's so seductive about the efficient markets hypothesis is that it applies nine years out of ten. A lot of the time it works. But when it stops working, you blow up.

In general, I have felt more at home in the U.S. than I ever felt in England.

There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.

Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it.

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

Oral history is a recipe for complete misrepresentation because almost no one tells the truth, even when they intend to.