Study men, not historians.
When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.
Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
History does not have sides, although historians do.
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
A historian has many duties. . . the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore