That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history. |
History is just a way of keeping score, but it doesn't have to be who we are. |
Learn from your history, but don't live in it. |
He who doesn't understand history is doomed to repeat it. |
History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. |
Whether history will judge this war to be different or not we cannot say. But this we can say with certainty: a government and a society that silences those who dissent is one that has lost its way. |
History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises, and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order on it. |
History is organized memory. |
Many -- and maybe even most -- of history's most successful people will never be documented by those responsible for recording history. |
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. |