1. History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.
2. The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
3. The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.
4. We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
5. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
6. The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.
7. History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
8. History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
9. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
10. There"s an old saying, that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This holds very true in the annals of history.
11. What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
12. The history of the world is a narrative of the deeds of people - and it always progresses as important people act in inventive and cooperative ways.
13. The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
14. We make our own history, but we do not make it as we please; we do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
15. People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
16. The history of mankind is the history of ideas.
17. The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.
18. History is not a burden on the memory, but an illumination of the soul.
19. History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life, and brings us tidings of antiquity.
20. The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
21. The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
22. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
23. The past cannot be cured.
24. The past is a great place and I don"t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don"t want to be its prisoner either.
25. The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are at their worst.
26. What experience and history teach is this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
27. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
28. The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
29. In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
30. History is not the story of heroes entirely. It is often the story of cruelty and injustice and shortsightedness.
31. History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
32. History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
33. The history of the world is the world"s court and in that court, people will be judged forever.
34. History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.
35. Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
36. The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause.
37. The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
