Every historian discloses a new horizon.
History Quotes
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.
I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I’ve been on TV. I could be on TV all the time if I wanted to. But most people will never get on TV. It has to be a real breakthrough for […]
What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power.
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.
Every man is a history of the world to himself.
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
