What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith.

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.