Historical Events Quotes

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.

When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.