(95 quotes found)
“The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians”
Margaret Thatcher
“We were pleased that the judge agreed with us. Getting as full a picture as possible is important for historians, for family members, for reporters and for the public.”
David McCraw
“[President Roosevelt won international recognition, orchestrating much of the negotiations himself from afar. In retrospect, some historians such as Samuel Eliot Morison, found fault.] Between 1941 and 1945 the United States paid heavily for the long-term results of Roosevelt's meddling, for which, ironically, he won the Nobel Peace Prize, ... The Oxford History of the American People.”
Samuel Eliot Morison
“Years ago there were historians who 'just sit and know;' that was the expression.”
Willa Skinner
“It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence”
Samuel Butler
“God cannot alter the past, that is why he is obliged to connive at the existence of historians”
“Historians say this will lead to civil conflict. It doesn't lead to girls being treasured. It leads to them being traded as commodities and stolen.”
Kate Adie
“A historian is a prophet in reverse”
Friedrich von Schlegel
“Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened.”
Kenneth Baker
“This guy is a historian,”
La'Roi Glover
