History is always a grand fantasy... To reconstruct is to invent.

We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square. — S. J. Hayakawa

The history of things that didn&#039;t happen has never been written. — Henry Kissinger

The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from. — John Still

History is something that never happened  written by a man who wasn&#039;t there. — Anonymous

History  a distillation of rumor — Thomas Carlyle

Assassination has never changed the history of the world. — Benjamin Disraeli

There is properly no history  only biography. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon