What Is History? and Other Essays Quotes

“The rule of law, properly speaking, is an exercise of authority in which the power of the subjects of that authority to seek and to obtain the satisfaction of their desires is qualified by the obligation to subscribe to certain moral-procedural conditions while leaving them to choose prudentially for themselves the substantive actions and utterances in which to seek such satisfactions.”
― Michael Oakeshott, What Is History?: Selected Writings (Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings Book 2)

“History has two main elements—(i) Events in time, and (ii) the recollection of these events in the mind. Both of these are, I think, essential.”
― Michael Oakeshott, What Is History?: Selected Writings (Michael Oakeshott Selected Writings Book 2)