Quotes from Carl L. Becker

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

History is the memory of things said and done.

No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.