| History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses. |
| History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. |
| Sometimes - history needs a push. |
| History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. |
| 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. |
| History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues. |
| History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen. |
| A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. |
| The history of the world is but the biography of great men. |
| Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. |