History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square.
After 15 years of work I have achieved as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower the unity of the German nation and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
History is so comprehensive and detailed. I couldn't be a history student. I thought there was a time when I couldn't be a history maker, because of my limited understanding of what that meant. Today,...
Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because soci...
I began with the desire to speak with the dead.
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
It was always the best way of finding out information; just go and ask a woman who keeps her eyes and ears open and who likes to talk. It always worked. It was no use asking men; they simply were not...
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Most history is a record of the triumphs disasters and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world...
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