19 Quotes by C. V. Wedgwood

The individual – stupendous and beautiful paradox – is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.