- History is the science of things which are not repeated.
- Paul Valery on History
- History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
- Konrad Adenauer on History
- History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on History
- History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill on History
- History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
- W. H. Auden on History
- History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
- John Le Carre on History
- History never looks like history when you are living through it.
- John W. Gardner on History
- History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women to military combat jobs is the way to win wars, improve combat readiness, or promote national security.
- Phyllis Schlafly on History
- History passes the final judgment.
- Sidney Poitier on History
- History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.
- Vladimir Putin on History
- History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
- Clarence Darrow on History
- History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
- Joseph Conrad on History
- History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
- History should be written as philosophy.
- History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
- Thomas Carlyle on History
- History shows that there are no invincible armies.
- Joseph Stalin on History
- History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
- Rick Warren on History
- History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.
- B. R. Ambedkar on History
- History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a sufficient condition.
- Milton Friedman on History
- History takes time. History makes memory.
- Gertrude Stein on History
- History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
- Ronald Reagan on History
- History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?
- Jon Meacham on History
- History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
- Thomas Huxley on History
- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill on History
- History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on History
- History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
- George H. W. Bush on History
- History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
- Malcolm Muggeridge on History
- History's a resource.
- Laura Linney on History
- History, a distillation of rumour.
- Thomas Carlyle on History
- History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
- Maya Angelou on History
- History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
- Thomas Jefferson on History
- History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.
- Robert Anton Wilson on History
- Hollywood has a history of raising expectations beyond Washington's reach, of appealing to the very American desire to mythologize political leaders, particularly the president.
- Ron Fournier on History
- Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
- Herbert Hoover on History
- Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
- Robert Anton Wilson on History
- How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
- Polly Toynbee on History
- Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
- Barry Goldwater on History
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells on History
- Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
- H. G. Wells on History
- Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
- Daisaku Ikeda on History
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