Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.
Don't brood on what's past but never forget it either.
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabia...
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
I began with the desire to speak with the dead.
The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.
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...
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
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.
Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
History is a vast early warning system.
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
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 first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.