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

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

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

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

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