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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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
