Date of birth: 1889-04-14
Date of death: 1975-10-22
Quotes number: 20
Nationality: British
Profession: Historian
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
A life which does not go into action is a failure.
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
History is a vision of God's creation on the move.
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
