History Quotes

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

History repeats itself.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

Before us men have flourished just as we now flourish: others yet again shall be, whose generations we shall never see.

All our history… is no more than accepted fiction.

It is much more difficult to talk about a thing than to do it. Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

The thing we learn from history is that people do not learn from history.

The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not said.

What is history but the obituary of nations?