Anyone, however, who has had dealings with dates knows that they are worse than elusive, they are perverse. Events do not happen at the right time, n….

History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it ….

This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we se….

A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end..

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes..

You can't be neutral on a moving train..

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors..

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts..

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall..

History is more or less bunk..

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances..

Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything..

We are all fools in love..

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes..

We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that ….

It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise oppos….

It sounds funny to say, but we saw [Kate's wedding to Prince William] as just a family wedding. And actually, I didn't realize - perhaps - the scale ….

Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out….

The study of History is the beginning of wisdom..

We study history in order to intervene in the course of history..

It is magnificent, but it is not war..