It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, read more

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

History is a confused heap of facts.

History is a confused heap of facts.

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in read more

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

History: A distillation of rumor.

History: A distillation of rumor.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.

Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human read more

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.