The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.
C. V. WedgwoodA nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
C. V. WedgwoodDemocracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
C. V. Wedgwood