To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende.

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

History repeats itself; historians repeat each other

Canadian history is not at all boring. It's Canadian historians who are boring.

Historians, I think, should be keepers of truth. We must tell things as they are - honestly, and without subversion. That is the greatest good one can do.

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.