"The hardest strokes of heaven fall in history upon those who imagine that they can control things in a sovereign mann…"

"Humanism and Humanitarianism, Liberalism and Internationalism...emerge as a result of a tendency to translate into se…"

"One of the paradoxes of history has been the way in which the name of England has come to be so closely associated wi…"

"But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousne…"

"Much as it may hurt us, we really have no choice but to move further to a more positive kind of internationalism, whi…"

"Considering the part played by the sciences in the story of our Western civilization, it is hardly possible to doubt …"

"The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good…"

"The study of the past with one eye upon the present is the source of all sins and sophistries in history. It is the e…"

"If history can do anything it is to remind us of those complications that undermine our certainties, and to show us t…"

"It is like the Bishop who said that if we totally disarmed he had too high an opinion of human nature to think that a…"