History doesn't pass the dishes again.
It is not acceptable that election winners interpret history. History should be left to historians who have a difficult task. They should try to avoid a one-sided or personal interpretation of history...
History is the devil's scripture.
Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
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.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
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.
Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.
It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
Don't brood on what's past but never forget it either.
I began with the desire to speak with the dead.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.