Books Quote by John Robert Seeley

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

— John Robert Seeley

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

— Edward Augustus Freeman

Politics is history in the making.

— Adolf Hitler

Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

History is past politics; and politics present history.

— Anonymous

History is more interesting than politics.

— Lennart Meri

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

— G. M. Trevelyan

Politics is history in the present tense.

— John Avlon

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the…

— Chris Patten

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible…

— Stendhal

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the…

— Arthur Koestler

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible

— Francis Parker Yockey