Battle Quote by Robert E. Lee

“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more…

— Louise Penny

History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mélange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is…

— Gretel Ehrlich

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“History is written by the victors,’ she said, ‘but the truth has a way of revealing itself.”

— Sebastien de Castell

History is one thing that nobody can take away. No matter what anybody says or whose side you're on.

— May Pang

“The actions of a single person with access to the secrets of a major power have the potential to modify the course of history.”

— Sergei Kostin

Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.

— Rolf Hochhuth

“I would not have the anniversaries of our victories celebrated, nor those of our defeats made fast days and spent in humiliation and prayer;…

— Ulysses S. Grant

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is…

— Henry Adams

History does nothing, possesses no enormous wealth, fights no battles. It is rather man, the real, living man, who does everything, possesses, fights. It…

— Karl Marx