“I've always been interested in foreign relations. It's my belief that study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present rather than an escape from it.”

“History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.”

“History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past”

“To study foreign affairs without putting ourselves into others' shoes is to deal in illusion and to prepare students for a lifelong misunderstanding of our place in the world.”

“It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led West.”

“It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.”