History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

History is the memory of things said and done.

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.