All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

History is as much an art as a science.

To conceive the good, in fact, is not sufficient; it must be made to succeed among men. To accomplish this less pure paths must be followed.

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."