History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page..
History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that..
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace..
My dear and old country, here we are once again together faced with a heavy trial..
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ accor….
The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides..
History is but the record of the public and official acts of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to humanize our history and deal with people ….
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?.
Our best history is still poetry..
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development..
A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is some….
Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history..
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me..
The whole value of history, of biography, is to increase my self-trust, by demonstrating what man can be and do..
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth..
There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark….
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease..
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions..
The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother..
They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again..
In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future..