No history can be bad so long as it is true

History can never be covered up.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

Be not false about the past.

The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

Truth could not be spawned in lies and deceit.

After all, history is no respecter of the feelings of persons and communities, and one cannot alter the facts of history. (xviii)

History is not acceptable until it has been sifted for the truth.

- What will History say?
- History, sir, will lie. As always.

As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.

since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them deviate from the path of the truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, repository of great deeds, witness to the past, example and adviser to the present, and forewarning to the future.

History is. We cannot make it otherwise.

We cannot change the history of the past.

In history there are no authorities: history is a free study in which no man can claim rule, or credence for his mere ipse dixit, and in which the only true sin is to deny a hearing to views with which one happens to disagree.