The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.

The tragedy of all political action is that some problems have no solution; none of the alternatives are intellectually consistent or morally uncompromising; and whatever decision is taken will harm somebody.