History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square.
The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
When the historian Charles A. Beard was asked about the lessons from history he said there were four: 1. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. 2. Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad wi...
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 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...
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
I have no history but the length of my bones.
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
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.
Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.
History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
I began with the desire to speak with the dead.
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.
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...
History is a vast early warning system.
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
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