There is no country but the heart.

And all times are one time, and all those dead in the past never lived before our definition gives them life, and out of the shadow their eyes implore us. That is what all of us historical researchers believe. And we love truth.

If you are an idealist, it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn't real anyway.

The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.

I longed to know the world's name.

To be an American is not...a matter of blood; it is a matter of an idea--and history is the image of that idea.

How do poems grow? They grow out of your life.