"Many historians make it a principal part of their business to investigate and explain the unfamiliar beliefs we encou…"

"Having gestured at the concept of rationality, I ought to stress that I intend nothing very grand or precise by that …"

"The lack of freedom suffered by those who advise the powerful may of course be due to coercion or force. But the slav…"

"The figure [neo-roman writers] wish to hold out for our admiration is described again and again. He is plain and plai…"

"Within a surprisingly short space of time, however, the fortunes of the neo-roman theory began to decline and fall. ……"

"To Namier it had seemed obvious that political theories act as the merest ex post facto rationalisations of political…"

"One of the present values of the past is as a repository of values we no longer endorse, of questions we no longer as…"

"It is remarkably difficult to avoid falling under the spell of our own intellectual heritage. As we analyse and refle…"

"If this is nothing more than a stipulation about how we ought to use the term ‘ideological’, then perhaps it will do …"

"I am convinced, in short, that the importance of truth for the kind of historical enquiries I am considering has been…"