“World history is a court of judgment”

“America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.”

“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”

“History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.”

“Nothing great in the world was accomplished without passion.”

“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights”

“We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”