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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

  • God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.

  • The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.

  • There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

  • That is what we have in revisionist historians. It starts with their own atheism, their own unbelief, and then they go back and attempt to revise and rewrite history in their own image.

  • I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different?

  • The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

  • The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.

  • The historian amputates reality.

  • Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

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