The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

Man generally is entangled in insoluble problems; history is consequently a tragedy in which we are all involved, whose keynote is anxiety and frustration, not progress and fulfilment.

The military struggle may frankly be regarded for what it actually was, namely a war for independence, an armed attempt to imposethe views of the revolutionists upon the British government and large sections of the colonial population at whatever cost to freedom of opinion or the sanctity of life and property.

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.