We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
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We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
History can never be covered up.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America.
Leave history to historians.
The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.