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The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.
There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.
History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.
if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.
The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.
Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.
The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.
The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.
Radical historians now the tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey.
I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.
The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events.
Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.
Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.
The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.
All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.
There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher: they exist only in romantic legend.
It takes at least three trees to make a row, and it needs at least three facts to make a truth.
In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.
I don't want to big myself up, but goals like mine leave a mark on history because they're rare.
Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.
The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.
History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.
Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.
This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.
Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.
Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.
History unravels; circumstances, following their natural inclination, prefer to remain ravelled.
Those who do not know history are probably also not doing well in English or math. P.J. O'Rourke
The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
by operating on the principle of human and material obsolescence, America eats her history alive.
I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.