The thing we learn from history is that people do not learn from history.
History Quotes
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?
They that would know what shall be must consider what hath been.
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Studying history warns against making it.
A historian is a prophet in reverse.
Those who don’t study the past will repeat its errors; those who do study it will find other ways to err.
In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history […]
