"In the beginning was the Word, not the Fact; history is thought and spoken and written with words; and the historian must be master of his words as much as of his 'facts,' whatever those might mean."
"For words are not mere tools, neither are they mere symbols. They are representative realities; they remind us of the inevitable connection between imagination and reality... The corruption of speech involves the corruption of truth, and the corruption of words means the debasement of speech which is the debasement of our most human and historic gifts."
- John Lukacs -
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