George Macaulay Trevelyan: Subject

George Macaulay Trevelyan was Historian. Explore interesting quotes on subject.

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“Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.”

George Macaulay Trevelyan

History of England http://books.google.com/books?id=6hUTAQAAIAAJ&q="Socrates+gave+no+diplomas+or+degrees+and+would+have+subjected+any+disciple+who+demanded+one+to+a+disconcerting+catechism+on+the+nature+of+true+knowledge" (1960).

Nature , Knowledge

“In the Stuart era, the English developed for themselves, without foreign participation or example, a system of Parliamentary government, local administration and freedom of speech and person, clean contrary to the prevailing tendencies on the continent, which was moving fast toward regal absolution, centralized bureaucracy, and the subjection of the individual to the State.”

George Macaulay Trevelyan

A Shortened History of England (1959)

Freedom , Personality

“The Charter was regarded as important because it assigned definite and practical remedies to temporary evils. There was very little that was abstract in its terms, less even than later generations supposed…. A King had been brought to order, not by a posse of reactionary feudalists, but the community of the land under baronial leadership; a tyrant had been subjected to the laws which hitherto it had been his private privilege to administer and to modify at will. A process had begun which was to end in putting the power of the Crown into the hands of the community at large.”

George Macaulay Trevelyan

on the Magna Carta's legacy
A Shortened History of England (1959)

Law , Communication , Evil