Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation….

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worth while. . . . The beauty and cogency of ….

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or h….

Dream dreams and write them aye, but live them first..

The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make ….

Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances..

But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Engla….

An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fr….

Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor ….

America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy..

Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history..

The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide..

Make no mistake; the American Revolution was not fought to obtain freedom, but to preserve the liberties that Americans already had as colonials. Ind….

The freedmen were not really free in 1865, nor are most of their descendants really free in 1965. Slavery was but one aspect of a race and color prob….

Military and absolutist regimes are undoubtedly well fitted to get the jump on an unsuspecting or unprepared enemy; but the history of modern warfare….

With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historica….

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile..

A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race [the Yankees]; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious e….

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can….

If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico or the Iroquois in North America would have ….

America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the explorat….