We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.
We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces; nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history.
We cannot leave history entirely to nonclinical observers and to professional historians.
Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.
Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
I'm a historian in my own mind.
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
I'm not a historian. I'm a politician. What is important for us is that the countries of the region and the people grow closer to each other, and that they are able to prevent aggression and injustice.
A good historian is timeless; although he is a patriot, he will never flatter his country in any respect.
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.