Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.

There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.

Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.