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.
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
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How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.
Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.
