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.

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

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

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.