History is a set of lies agreed upon.- attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte
What is history, but a fable agreed upon? – attributed to Fontenelle.
History is written by the victors- Winston Churchill/Walter Benjamin
A lie can get halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.-attributed to Winston Churchill
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”-Winston Churchill
There are a lot of lies going around…and half of them are true.-Winston Churchill
Half a truth is often a great lie– Benjamin Franklin
“The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.”–Bernard Malamud
“What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself…His acts and his words are merely the visible thin crust of his world…and they are so trifling a part of his bulk! A mere skin enveloping it. The mass of him is hidden–it and it’s volcanic fires that toss and boil, and never rest, night nor day.These are his life, and they are not written, and cannot be written…Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man–the biography of the man himself cannot be written.”
Excerpt from Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1, by Mark Twain
The New Truth–Whatever You Want It To Be-Nov. 15, 2006 Robert J.Bender