Morality is a private and costly luxury.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.