The historian is terribly responsible to what he can…

“Work diligently to discern the facts of the matter, and then use your principles to respond. They”

— Thomas E Ricks

“What is truth?" Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as…

— Timothy Snyder

“I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet,…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

As a prosecutor, the law and the facts of a case were my foundation and my guide, and they have remained my North Star…

— Alejandro Mayorkas

In sane moments we regard only the facts, the case that is.

— Henry David Thoreau

“What is at issue here are not the bare facts of the case, but the contents of a man’s mind.”

— Graeme Macrae Burnet

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

— Finley Peter Dunne

We need a feminist movement in which the facts of the case trump the identities of the parties involved.

— Bari Weiss

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

— Woodrow Wilson

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect…

— Goldwin Smith

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

— Karl Kraus

In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“military historian Richard Holmes.”

— Clare Wright

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains…

— James A. Garfield

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

— John Dryden