“History is written by every generation. Every generation writes its own history using the same sources. The interpretations vary according to time.”

“Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.”

“History isn't written by the winners - it's written by everyone - it's a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every once in a while, you unearth that one original document that no one can argue with...”

“Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.”

“History has to be rewritten in every generation, because although the past does not change, the present does; each generation asks new questions of the past and finds new areas of sympathy as it re-lives different aspects of the experiences of its predecessors.”

“History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations”