G. M. Trevelyan
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"George Macaulay Trevelyan", Order of Merit/OM, Order of the British Empire/CBE, Royal Society/FRS, British Academy/FBA, was a British people/British historian. Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay/Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose staunch liberal British Whig Party/Whig principles he espoused in accessible works of literate narrative avoiding a consciously dispassionate analysis, that became old-fashioned during his long and productive career. The noted historian E. H. Carr considered Trevelyan to be one of the last historians of the Whig history/Whig tradition.

Many of his writings promoted the Whig (British political faction)/Whig Party, an important aspect of British politics from the 17th century to the mid-19th century, and its successor, the Liberal Party. Whigs and Liberals believed the common people had a more positive effect on history than did royalty and that democratic government would bring about steady social progress.

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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals.

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

I have two doctors - my left leg and my right leg.

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.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.