It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness..

History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines..

Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning..

The right of every person "to be let alone" must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate..

Every thought is an afterthought..

Problems cannot all be solved, for, as they are solved, new aspects are continually revealed: the historian opens the way, he does not close it..

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind..

Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy..

Every generation tailors history to its taste..

History is full of the dead weight of things which have escaped the control of the mind, yet drive man on with a blind force..

Political and social history are in my view two aspects of the same process. Social life loses half its interest and political movements lose most of….

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace..

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself..

History is a science, no more and no less..

Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it..

We decipherers cannot afford to be as picky as the linguist, who can always run back to a native speaker for a few more forms..

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two….

History is the memory of things said and done..

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened..

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility..

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't ….