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As a local historian I was amazed and delighted to have the details of the letter passed to me. – Stephen Oxford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
As a historian, I always found it interesting that he didn't really talk about it [ his time as a POW ] unless asked, he saw it as part of his service to the country, and did n’t want to dwell on past service but what he could do today, here and now. – John Sherwood	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Why is it so dangerous? Because no one can foresee what the long-term consequences would be, as a historian I fear that Brexit could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but also of western political civilization in its entirety. – European Council President Donald Tusk	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The hardest thing I had to do as a historian on the topic of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Jews was not to rewrite history based on what we know and believe today. – American University	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Has any historian sought to question why the wagonmaster of America's westward-bound pioneers 'circled' the wagons instead of 'squaring' or 'triangulating' them for a better defense strategy in fighting-off Indian raids on the plains: – Francis M. Faber Jr.	added by WerterBuch 8 years ago
For somebody who knows something about history and grew up in the house of historian Professor Benzion Netanyahu, he should know well, but in my humble opinion, to say that the mufti gave Adolf Hitler the idea is wrong. – Dina Porat	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Any political historian can give innumerable examples of one percenters who have gone on to success, maybe even Bill Clinton himself? – Lincoln Chafee	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. – Paul de Man	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him. – Lionel Trilling	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Johannes was something of a Renaissance man. First of all, artist. Then author, historian, archivist and even sort-of farmer. Above all, he was a thoughtful, loving and loveable human being who thought very deeply about the human condition – Tertius Myburgh	added by anonymous 10 years ago
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of – Gore Vidal	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. – Antoine de Rivarol	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers. – G. M. Trevelyan	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. – Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects. – Herodotus	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave. – Edward Morgan Forster	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. – Lytton Strachey	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The historian is a prophet in reverse. – Friedrich von Schlegel	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. – Barbara Tuchman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. – Lee Simonson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destiny of man. – Steven Runciman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack. – Steven Runciman	added by anonymous 14 years ago

As a local historian I was amazed and delighted to have the details of the letter passed to me.

– Stephen Oxford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a historian, I always found it interesting that he didn't really talk about it [ his time as a POW ] unless asked, he saw it as part of his service to the country, and did n’t want to dwell on past service but what he could do today, here and now.

– John Sherwood

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Why is it so dangerous? Because no one can foresee what the long-term consequences would be, as a historian I fear that Brexit could be the beginning of the destruction of not only the EU but also of western political civilization in its entirety.

– European Council President Donald Tusk

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The hardest thing I had to do as a historian on the topic of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Jews was not to rewrite history based on what we know and believe today.

– American University

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Has any historian sought to question why the wagonmaster of America's westward-bound pioneers 'circled' the wagons instead of 'squaring' or 'triangulating' them for a better defense strategy in fighting-off Indian raids on the plains:

– Francis M. Faber Jr.

added by WerterBuch
8 years ago

For somebody who knows something about history and grew up in the house of historian Professor Benzion Netanyahu, he should know well, but in my humble opinion, to say that the mufti gave Adolf Hitler the idea is wrong.

– Dina Porat

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Any political historian can give innumerable examples of one percenters who have gone on to success, maybe even Bill Clinton himself?

– Lincoln Chafee

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.

– Paul de Man

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing -- he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him.

– Lionel Trilling

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Johannes was something of a Renaissance man. First of all, artist. Then author, historian, archivist and even sort-of farmer. Above all, he was a thoughtful, loving and loveable human being who thought very deeply about the human condition

– Tertius Myburgh

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of

– Gore Vidal

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.

– Antoine de Rivarol

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

– H. L. Mencken

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

– G. M. Trevelyan

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

– Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

– Herodotus

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

– Edward Morgan Forster