History Quotes - random - 100+ quotes
Politics is history in the present tense.
[T]he great test [of history] has been decidedly against Marx and his theories of value and surplus value.
Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.
Each one writes history according to his convenience.
The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.
Every period in history has it's own punishments, and ours has a multitude.
To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.
Language is the archives of history...Language is fossil poetry.
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
The three greatest idiots in history, have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote, and myself.
"Peace through Strength," surely history's most exploded nostrum.
history is like your social Security number. long, useless, but needed.
Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.
(Allegedly) Why are we talking about this in the White House? History will not judge this kindly.
Historia et scribitur ad narrandum non ad probandum.
History is just one bloody thing after another.
The lesson of History is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.