If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.