History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.
~ T. S. Eliot
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
~ Lord Acton
History is more or less bunk.
~ Henry Ford
I have no history but the length of my bones.
~ Robin Skelton
History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.
~ Edmund Burke
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
~ Sioux Proverb
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
~ Dylan Thomas
The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
~ Friedrich Von Schiller
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
~ Voltaire
We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square.
~ S. J. Hayakawa
The history of things that didn't happen has never been written.
~ Henry Kissinger
The memories of men are too frail a thread to hang history from.
~ John Still
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
~ Joseph Stalin
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
~ Winston Churchill
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
~ Samuel Butler
