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History must be written of, by and for the survivors.- Anonymous
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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History never looks like history when you are living through it.
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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.
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History ought to be guided by strict truth; and worthy actions require nothing more.
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History paints the human heart.
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History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
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History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,–the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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History remembers only the brilliant failures and the brilliant successes.- Randolph S. Bourne
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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.- Karl Marx
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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
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History repeats itself; that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.
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History shows that the majority of men who have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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History started badly and has been getting steadily worse.
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History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.
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History supplies little beyond a list of those who have accommodated themselves with the property of others.
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History teaches everything, even the future.
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History teaches us hope.
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