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This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".
History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.
Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.
Auschwitz will forever remain the black hole of the entire human history.
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.
History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.
In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.
As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.
To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Rapid change of conditions in all human affairs bring unexpected results.
I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.
A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.
The use of history as therapy means the corruption of history as history.
Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
History is something that never happened told by someone who wasn't there.
History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.
A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?
We must not look at the past with the enormous condescension of posterity.
Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.
A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration.
The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.
The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous.
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
The American flag is the symbol of our freedom, national pride and history.
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development