“ The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoug… G. M. Trevelyan
“ Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan
“ Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. G. M. Trevelyan
“ Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing. G. M. Trevelyan
