History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.
History Quotes
History is merely gossip.
History is written by people who attend meetings, and stay until the end, and keep the minutes.
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?
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.
