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I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

— Sherman Alexie

We can be revisionist, and that's a good thing to be at times, but we shouldn't airbrush our history, so we can only make…

— Gerry Adams

Every good historian is almost by definition a revisionist. He looks at the accepted view of a particular historic episode or period with a…

— Paul Johnson

Most academic historians accept that historians' own circumstances demand that they tell the story in a particular way, of course. While people wring their…

— Michelle Dean

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

— Michael Moore

In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a…

— Rick Scarborough

“Certainly every historian brings certain predilections to the study of history. But every historian also has the ethical obligation to suspend judgment until finding…

— George M. Dennison

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

— Kwasi Kwarteng

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

— Jared Diamond

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

— Samuel Butler

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the…

— Russell Kirk

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,

— Jack Granatstein