Deserve Quote by C. V. Wedgwood

No serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so.

— Eric Hobsbawm

There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in…

— Joseph Anderson

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past,…

— Eric Hobsbawm

History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.

— Ferdinand Marcos

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write…

— Julian Cope

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

— Pyotr Chaadayev

“History is made only by those who oppose history (not by those who insert themselves into it, or even reshape it).”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

“Even if published in written form, history, it is argued, is not embedded as a memory at an individual level: it has to be…

— Suzanne Keene

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.

— Tony Judt

A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.

— Francois Fenelon

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

— Wallace Stegner