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The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
Author: Friedrich Von Schiller
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The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.
Author: Stendhal
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
Author: A.j.p. Taylor
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The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.
Author: Richard H. Tawney
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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Author: Rebecca West
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I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.
Author: Charlotte Barnard
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May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
Author: Paul Dickson
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Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...
Author: James Knox Polk
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It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.
Author: Margaret Thatcher
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The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
Author: George F. Will
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More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.
Author: John Barth
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
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History is past politics; and politics present history.
Author: John Seeley
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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
Author: Voltaire
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I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
Author: Cato The Elder
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It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
Author: Nicolas Caussin
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While we read history we make history.
Author: George William Curtis
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Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
Author: E. M. Cioran
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We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
Author: Nathanael Greene
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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Author: George W. Ball
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As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.
Author: Gerald Barzan
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Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!
Author: Edwin C. Bliss
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It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
Author: Brian Friel
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Look to the past for guidance into the future.
Author: Robert Jacob Goodkin
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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Author: Leslie P. Hartley
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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
Author: Billy Joel
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Even the Germans did not succeed in doing the damage you propose to do.
Author: Edward Finlason
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Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
Author: John Hersey
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I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Author: Elizabeth Ii
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There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
Author: Richard M. Nixon
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Time is my greatest enemy.
Author: Evita Peron
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Author: Dan Quayle
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She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world.
Author: Adlai E. Stevenson
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Ireland's ruins are historic emotions surrendered to time.
Author: Horace Sutton
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
Author: Alexis De Tocqueville
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Author: Mao Tse-tung
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We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window.
Author: Adm Stansfield Turner
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The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Author: Charles A. Beard
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The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.
Author: Max Beerbohm
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History is a confused heap of facts.
Author: Lord Chesterfield
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History is philosophy learned from examples.
Author: Dionysius Of Halicarnassus
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All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Author: Gustav Flaubert
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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Author: George Santayana
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How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.
Author: The Talmud
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The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
Author: Margaret Thatcher
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The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Author: Dylan Thomas
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Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Author: Leo Tolstoy
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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
Author: Mark Twain
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