Memorable Quotations: Historians of the Past (English Edition)

This collection of remarkable quotations is a gem of discerning wisdom, lovely thoughts, and astute wit gleaned from the words of great historians of the past: Lord Acton, Henry Brooks Adams, Hannah Arendt, Mary Ritter Beard, Hilaire Belloc, Walter Benjamin, Murray Bookchin, Daniel J. Boorstin, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Thomas Carlyle, Lord Kenneth Clark, Bernard Devoto, Will Durant, H. A. L. Fisher, Michel Foucault, Thomas Fuller, Henry Fuseli, Edward Gibbon, Philip Guedalla, David Hume, Philip Johnson, Christopher Lasch, Henry Cabot Lodge, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Golo Mann, Lewis Mumford, Dorothy Nevill, Cardinal John Newman, Reinhold Niebuhr, Margaret Oliphant, Sir William Osler, C. Northcote Parkinson, Pliny The Elder, Plutarch, Edgar Quinet, Bertrand Russell, Friedrich Von Schiller, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Oswald Spengler, Lytton Strachey, A.J.P. Taylor, A. J. Toynbee, G. M. Trevelyan, Barbara Tuchman, Giambattista Vico, and Xenophon.