English Historian Quotations

As the archeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.

Luxury may possibly contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.

It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.

In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.

We may have to have a geo-political regrouping or major geo-political changes.

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.

I need hardly say that the publication of the Twelve Tables is not the earliest point at which we can take up the history of law.

By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.

The greatest men, you can quote for everything.