If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. – John F. Kennedy

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! – George Macaulay Trevelyan

[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. – Fritz Stern, The Varieties of History