Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel the historian, though with less urgency, to make up his mind.Samuel E. Morison
If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
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Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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