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Some people make headlines while others make history.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'
History is the story of events, with praise or blame.
There is no life that does not contribute to history.
We may not live in the past, but the past lives in us.
[T]he historian and the detective have much in common.
Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
History is a novel for which the people is the author.
Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.
I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.
Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
And history becomes legend and legend becomes history.
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
Whatever is old corrupts, and the past turns to snakes.
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
We learn from history that we do not learn from history
History is not a pattern-book of fossilized ideologies.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.
I just couldn't move. History had me glued to the seat.
Anything is bearable if you can make a story out of it.
Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.
I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.
There's nothing anyone can do except change the subject.
Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories
I have been blind expecting everything to stay the same.
Creative memory is the historian's most subtle opponent.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.
Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.
If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.
A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.
All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.
I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
The mind's direction is more important than its progress.
Know thy history. Let it horrify you; let it inspire you.
We were the most conservative revolutionaries in history.
Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.