Lilian Matulin

“No matter how good a President you are, if the historian is hostile to you, he will emphasize your errors and break down your merits... without departing from the facts.”
― Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Talking History: Conversations with Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“History deals with the past, not with the future. We use history to avoid the mistakes of the past, not to recreate the very same events. You cannot.”
― Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Talking History: Conversations with Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“It's stupidity to continue using a method which is proven to be useless [and] fruitless. It's a waste of manpower.”
― Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Talking History: Conversations with Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“There is a great similarity between legal evidence and historical evidence. The only difference lies in the fact that in legal evidence it is the judge who determines whether the account of a witness is acceptable or not... The historian is prosecuting attorney and defense attorney and the judge all rolled into one, and he is the narrator and the interpreter.”
― Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Talking History: Conversations with Teodoro A. Agoncillo