Modern Historians

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or historians:

    Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and make no one happy when they are finished.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
    Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)