Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

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.

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.

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

the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

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