A. Raymond Randolph Quotes

One duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Many try to force the past to change.

History is always changing.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

As soon as the Confederates laid down their arms, some picked up their pens and began to distort what they had done and why. The resulting mythology took hold of the nation a generation later and persists.

Though God cannot alter the past, historians can.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past

Falsification of history, at least by the suppression of facts and of relevant but distasteful contemporary documents, is one of the most unfortunate features of modern culture.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product.

History is written not only for posterity but by posterity as well.

Everybody rewrites history if he can.

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.

Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.

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.

History is a battleground... but it has always been the case. Remembering is a radical act. Choosing what is important and what belongs in the overstuffed metaphorical dustbin of history is of vital importance.

There is no such thing as a final draft of history.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory ...

In Russia, history is often written in pencil so it can be more easily erased.