History Quotes

History is what enables each nation to use the other fellow’s past record as an alibi.

A student who changes the course of history is probably taking an exam.

We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

History repeats itself.

History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.