Historian Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures…

— Oswald Spengler

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

— Henry Bolingbroke

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because…

— Isaac Asimov

“Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always…

— Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are; the work of living men not superseding, but building itself…

— John Ruskin

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past,…

— Eric Hobsbawm

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Nations, no matter how small and unmeritorious, cannot be annihilated. They may be put down and even divided up, and their name erased from…

— W. C. Corsan

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from…

— Jacob Burckhardt

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

— Otto Bauer