Eric McCormack Quotes

To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.

My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

It may not be art, but it is history.

… so that in 50 years no one could claim that this did not happen.

News is the first rough draft of history.

In the end, we journalists try - or should try - to be the first impartial witnesses of history. If we have any reason for our existence, the least must be our ability to report history as it happens so that no one can say: 'we didn't know - no one told us.'

Completeness is rare in history.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.

People have always been recording what's going on around them in one form or another.

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

History will treat me right.

The people who make history are not the people who make it who are there but the people who make it and then write about it.

Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

I have always had a great interest in visually documenting the past.

We are tomorrow's past.

The historian has a special obligation to sobriety and fidelity to the record.

History is not made of up major media headlines and daily blogs and attacks.

I really don’t make history; I preserve it.

Divining the future is a lot easier and cheaper than documenting the present.