The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to write honest history and the one who'd rather write a good story.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

History is largely concerned with arranging good entrances for people; and later exits not always quite so good.

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?

The more we know of History, the less shall we esteem the subjects of it, and to despise our species is the price we must too often pay for our knowledge of it.