What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience.
History Quotes
History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells “Can’t you remember anything I told you?!” and lets fly with a club.
It was during the debate on the Foreign Office vote that Stringham made his great remark that ‘the people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.’ It was not brilliant, but it came in the middle of a dull speech, and the House was quite pleased with it. Old gentlemen with […]
Rhodes, where history lies sleeping.
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
Every historian discloses a new horizon.
This is the lesson that history teaches: history teaches.
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten… What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are […]
And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strenghten and knit the repressed.
