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“History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.”

Stories History Records Accidents Scar Illogical Hinges

Book:Heart Mountain

Source: Heart Mountain

“We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'.”

Ifs World Enjoy Behinds History Democracy Records Wonderful Blessing Worthy African American American History Not Worthy

Author:Carter G. Woodson

“In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.”

Individual Nations Peace History Records Historical Silent Contentment

Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history--until it degenerates into fables.”

Matter Stories Grows History Records Tales Dust Fables Degenerates Lapses Fuzzy Time Lapse

Author:Isaac Asimov

“Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.”

People Men World Way Black History Records Men And Women Disaster Holes Triumph Folly World History Mute Black Hole Nuisance

Author:Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel

“With their own record of killing 12 million American Indians and supporting slavery for four decades after the British abolished it, Americans wish to project their historical guilt on to someone else.”

Wish History Millions Records Four Humour Projects Slavery Guilt Historical Killing British Decades American Indian

Author:Andrew Roberts

“This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.”

Men Want Feels Should Action Opinion History Records Expression Office Chiefs Dread Virtuous Rescue Oblivion Posterity Infamous Depraved

Author:Tacitus

“The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.”

“The volumes which record the history of the human race are filled with the deeds and the words of great men ... [but] The Twentieth Century Woman ... questions the completeness of the story.”

Men Humans Stories Race History Records Century Filled Deeds Human Race Great Men Sexism Volume Twentieth Century Completeness

Book:A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

Source: A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters

“Although it is tempting to imagine an ancient era innocent of biochemical weaponry, in fact this Pandora's box of horrors was opened thousands of years ago. The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories.”

“History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.”

Ifs Age Past Causes History Records Office Deserve Ill Justify Tyrants Instruction Persecution Maxims Roman Empire Transactions

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger we are driven to the written record by a pressing need to find answers to the riddles of today.... In times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present and get us past that idiot delusion of the exceptional Now that blocks good thinking.”

Source: Occasions and protests

“A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.”

Should Art Philosophy History Records Progress Written Art History

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.”

Ends Quality History Records Fundamentals Primaries Historian Fidelity Accuracy Impartiality

Book:Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair

Source: Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres: Chiefly from the Lectures of Dr. Blair