Famous quotes by Historians

"Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"There is always more spirit in attack than in defence"

Titus Livius, Historian

"The sword - the first, for a time the only force: the force of iron"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"The Crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"The missiles come first, and the justifications come second"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"I think that the U.S. does have this very much more open attitude, and I admire it very much and I think it's very important to the world. But the information and the discussion sometimes come too late, after the effective decision has been made"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits"

E. P. Thompson, Historian

"Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results"

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Historian

"For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals"

Michael I. Rostovtzeff, Historian

"The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money"

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Historian

"We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"If we conceive all the changes in the physical world as reducible to the motion of atoms, motions generated by means of the fixed nuclear forces of those atoms, the whole of the world could thus be known by means of the natural sciences"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

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