History Quotes - random
They (Thucydides and Xenophon) maintained the dignity of history.
I can’t appreciate someone else’s history if I’m forced to reject and feel ashamed about mine.
The history of commerce is that of the communication of the people.
History is not about who's right. It's about who's left.
The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.
History is moving in zig-zags and by roundabout ways.
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
History is neither written nor made without love or hate.
Hiding from your history only shackles you to it. Instead, face it and free yourself.
We are witnessing history. This is the most dominant athlete on planet earth today.
He who invokes history is always secure.
The dead will not rise to witness against him.
Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.
Does history record any case in which the majority was right?
16 years...a very short and very long time, when it comes to Armenia's history.
Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Lincoln was one of history's greatest men, but Americans are not like him. He was a lonely exception.