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.
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more t...
I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
History is the devil's scripture.
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
Don't brood on what's past but never forget it either.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
History is: Fables agreed upon - Voltaire The biography of a few stout and earnest persons - Ralph Waldo Emerson A vast Mississippi of falsehood - Matthew Arnold A confused heap of facts - Lord Cheste...
History is a vast early warning system.
War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.
The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.
Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.
The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
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