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History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.
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History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.
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History tells us more than we want to know about what is wrong with man, and we can hardly turn a page in the daily press without learning the specific time, place, and name of evil. But perhaps the most pervasive evil of all rarely appears in the news. This evil, the waste of human potential, is particularly painful to recognize for it strikes our parents and children, our friends and brothers, ourselves.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.
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History will absolve me.- Fidel Castro
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History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.- Henry Adams
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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.
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History without politics descends to mere Literature.- John Robert Seely
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History, a distillation of rumour.
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History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man’s spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought.
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History, as long as it continues to happen, is always another chance.
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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.- Maya Angelou
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History, history! We fools, what do we know or care.- William Carlos Williams
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History, in whatever way it may be executed, is a great source of pleasure.
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History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamities that have befallen the human race had no other origin than the union of high intelligence with low desires.
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History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.
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History, like religion, unites all learning and power, especially ancient history; that is, the history of the nations of the youthful world–Grecian and Roman, Jewish and early Christian.
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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
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History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
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