This is the lesson that history teaches: history teaches.
History Quotes
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
History is a better guide than good intentions.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
For my own part, I do not believe there is one word of historical truth in the whole book (The Bible). I look upon it at best to be a romance: the principal personage of which is an imaginary or allegorical character founded upon some tale.
History knows no resting place and no plateaus.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
The most persistent sound which reverberates through men’s history is the beating of war drums.
