A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.

The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.

For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.