Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust..

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germa….

On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!.

This is a very fickle and faithless generation..

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today..

Honest history is the weapon of freedom..

History is, indeed, an argument without end..

The more sure you are, the more wrong you can be..

A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would ….

Humankind has understood history as a series of battles because, to this day, it regards conflict as the central facet of life..

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it..

History is a pageant and not a philosophy..

Libraries are not made, they grow..

I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past..

When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The ind….

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations..

If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the tra….

The vast majority of those of Scots lineage living in the Ulster counties in the 18th century had come across, or their people had come across, in th….

I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist..

Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of..