No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them
The easiest way of change history is to become a historian.
If only the sense of actuality can be lulled-and it sleeps for ever in most historians-there is no passion that cannot be gratified in the past.
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.
I don't know if a historian or scholar owns an opinion.
