History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses.
[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead - and so the imagination of the living.
Failure is impossible.
We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.
Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
What man is, only his history tells.
History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
To those of you who seek lost objects of history, I wish you the best of luck. They're out there, and they're whispering.
Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.
There is no life that does not contribute to history.
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