“ Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe. Christopher Hill
“ Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them. Christopher Hill
“ The radicals assumed that acting was more important than speaking. Talking and writing books, Winstanley insisted, is 'all nothing and must die; for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act… Christopher Hill
