History Quotes

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.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

History is the science of what never happens twice.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

After you’ve heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident, it makes you wonder about history.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest for his daily bread and butter.