Though God cannot alter the past, historians can.
I can't rewrite history.
But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.
Facts are stupid things — stubborn things, I should say.
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance.
We cannot re-write the whole of history for the purpose of gratifying our moral sense of what should be.
History cannot be erased, although we can soothe ourselves by speculating about it.
You can't erase history.
