"The past as we know it is partly a product of the present; we continually reshape memory, rewrite history, refashion relics. (...) To revise what actually happened, as distinct from our ideas and its traces, is impossible, yet ardently desired. Three main motives impel would-be time travellers to tamper with history: to improve the past itself or the lot of those who live in it; to better present circumstances by changing what has led up to them; and to ensure the stability of the present by altering or (protecting) the past against interference by others"
David Lowenthal, The Past is a Foreign Contry, Cambridge University Press, p. 26
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