Famous quotes by Historians

"Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true"

Samuel E. Morison, Historian

"The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom"

Titus Livius, Historian

"No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds"

Titus Livius, Historian

"There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed"

Titus Livius, Historian

"There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards"

Titus Livius, Historian

"There are laws for peace as well as war"

Titus Livius, Historian

"The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening"

Titus Livius, Historian

"Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment"

Titus Livius, Historian

"With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"History shows how feeble are barriers of paper"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"The result showed that fortune helps the brave"

Titus Livius, Historian

"Rome has grown since its humble beginnings, that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness"

Titus Livius, Historian

"The sun has not yet set for all time"

Titus Livius, Historian

"Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never"

Titus Livius, Historian

"Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them"

Titus Livius, Historian

"Envy, like fire, always makes for the highest points"

Titus Livius, Historian

"It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task"

Titus Livius, Historian

"The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"When did one man ever civilize a people?"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"Wealth brings strength, strength, confidence"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

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