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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

The trouble with American History is that you don't remember it, and why should you? Nobody does.

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Progress needs the brakeman, but the brakeman should not spend all his time putting on the brakes.

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy.

Empires inevitably fall, and when they do, history judges them for the legacies they leave behind.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

A reason that the past is so hated by the young is that there is no way to be entirely free of it.

All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.

All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.

If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir.

Anybody may support me when I am right. What I want is someone that will support me when I am wrong.

History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically.

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.

There are always some areas world history does not reach, zones of silence and undisturbed ignorance.

History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.

History within itself cannot be transcended. ... In history itself there are only relative victories.

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

The talent of historians lies in their creating a true ensemble out of facts which are but half true.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

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