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History is only time furnished with dates and rich with events.
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.
I want to go down in the history books with what I've achieved.
It's hard to understand a moment in history when you are in it.
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
He was not the greatest of men but he was the greatest of kings.
We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.
If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.
Our armies were in as much chaos in victory as theirs in defeat.
Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
Equality under the law is the slow triumph of hope over history.
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
History never looks like history when you are living through it.
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.
Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?
I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.
It takes all sorts to make a world - saints as well as soldiers.
A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
Who will remember Anna Wintour in the history of fashion? No one.
History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
History - an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant
We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Follow me if I advance, kill me if I retreat, avenge me if I die.
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.
[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.
The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.
The whole point of society is to be less unforgiving than nature.
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.
Thirty resolute men in your House of Commons could save the world.
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.