The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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.
The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.
The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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,...
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...
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
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...
War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
Don't brood on what's past but never forget it either.
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