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

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

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.

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

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

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