So no attempts at self-serving illusions of certainty for events lost and found in the mutable mists of history?

Your reply seems more honest and wise than claims for stances held by a faction not necessarily present to substantiate and update positions. Many speak for the dead, and claim members from the lost faction for their own selfish purposes, but the very same may be the first to refuse stronger claims of membership by that larger of factions.

Supposedly, that is the paraphrased form of the quote.