History will be kind to me for I intend to write it

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it

In a certain sense all men are historians.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

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.

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

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.

Give the historians something to write about.

Give the historians something to write about.