The crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilization is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.
History Quotes
History, although sometimes made up of the few acts of the great, is more often shaped by the many acts of the small.
Give the historians something to write about.
History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.
And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been “great changes.”
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
History is not always written in the blood of rolling heads. Paper is the equal to steel in the stuff of momentous events.
I have no history but the length of my bones.
