"Injustice occurs in free states as in despotic states; and the attempt to right the wrong is as unpopular and dangero…"

"The average Englishman was ashamed of the British Empire and believed (quite wrongly) that it had been acquired in so…"

"Anglo-German relations between 1884 and 1914 abound in these private letters and unofficial visits, culminating in an…"

"The only danger to history today is that historians are sometimes too modest and try to find excuses for their task. …"

"The details of diplomatic history do indeed seem of irredeemable triviality; but in fact, diplomatic history deals wi…"

"The object of policy is not to prove one's moral worth, but to succeed."

"The history of the Germans is a history of extremes. It contains everything except moderation, and in the course of a…"

"1848 was the decisive year of German, and so of European, history: it recapitulated Germany's past and anticipated Ge…"

"British history has been made by a series of true compromises. The landed classes compromised with the merchants at t…"

"A revolution cannot be judged by the ordinary standards of academic morality."