The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.
Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.
Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low.
Ah, there's nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization - this tea ritual and the detective novel.
We cannot be spun, or at least we'd like to think that we cannot be. And the presidents who are trying to - too overtly to try to say, here is what you historians and what you later Americans should think of my presidency, 30 or 40 years later, they look silly.
Truth is with the victors-who, as you know, also controls the historians.
If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.
The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do.
History is the invention of historians.
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and marvelthat weshould have so meekly subjected ourselves to its destructive and often malign influence.
A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.
Computer scientists are the historians of computing.
We are all historians in our small way.
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e. g. , the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.
I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.