A military leader of the first class cannot be content merely to win: he must also fight elegantly. History will not overlook his least little gesture, the minutest detail of his generalship. Historians will either improve his image by judicious chiseling and polishing or else represent him as a lucky deadhead and nothing more.
History Quotes
This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Perhaps in time the so-called dark ages will be thought of as including our own.
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
History – its what those bitter old men write.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of […]
History belongs to the winner.
Legend: a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
