We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned.
Source: The Trouble Makers, ch. 1 (1957).
-- A J P Taylor, (Mar 25 1906-1990), English historian; Alan John Percivale Taylor wrote English History, 1914-1945 and The Origins of the Second World War, 1961.