Famous quotes by Historians

"The West is now closed"

Frederick Jackson Turner, Historian

"Liberty is the prevention of control by others"

John Acton, Historian

"In the future, as in the past, both Clausewitz and Sun Tzu will undoubtedly have a lot to offer"

Martin van Creveld, Historian

"The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words"

Arthur Bryant, Historian

"And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought"

Arthur Bryant, Historian

"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion"

John Acton, Historian

"Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected"

Martin van Creveld, Historian

"It was a rich and gorgeous sunset - an American sunset; and the ruddy glow of the sky was reflected from some extensive pools of water among the shadowy copses in the meadow below"

Francis Parkman, Historian

"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away"

Arthur Helps, Historian

"We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice"

Arthur Helps, Historian

"Biography, for all its potential pitfalls and limitations, remains an essential tool in the historian's kit, helping us to understand the human dimension of the past, and offering a window into the lives and motivations of those who shaped events"

Ben Pimlott, Historian

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them"

Francesco Guicciardini, Historian

"The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it"

George Kimble, Historian

"The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind"

Mary Ritter Beard, Historian

"A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia"

David C. McCullough, Historian

"Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma"

Philip Guedalla, Historian

"This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice"

Victor Davis Hanson, Historian

"You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live"

Donald Kagan, Historian

"My definition of modernism took a while to develop"

Peter Gay, Historian

"Only very slowly and late have men come to realize that, unless freedom is universal, it is only extended privilege"

John Edward Christopher Hill, Historian

"This means that to man God gave a degree of free will"

Kenneth Scott Latourette, Historian

"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul"

George Bancroft, Historian

"Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it"

Eric Hobsbawm, Historian

"The chief incalculable in war is the human will"

B. H. Liddell Hart, Historian

"The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty"

Francois Guizot, Historian

"If man asks for many laws, it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous"

Will Durant, Historian

"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime"

Will Durant, Historian

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds"

Will Durant, Historian

"The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife"

Will Durant, Historian

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