Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

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

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.