The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical

It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England

For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.

The recalcitrant forces in the historical drama have a power and persistence beyond our reckoning.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

Roughly 90 percent of songs have mating as their central theme, and this holds true regardless of cultural setting or historical period.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.