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I study history in order to give an interpretation.

History is only conjecture, and the best historians try to do it as accurately as they can. They try to accurately reassemble the facts and then put them down on paper.

I am no historian but have tried to stick tight to the facts.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.

History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.