Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause read more

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

History: A distillation of rumor.

History: A distillation of rumor.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in read more

It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.

History repeats itself; historians repeat each other.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.