The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

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 passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

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.

The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.

Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman.