historians

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are wrong.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print the main thing is still to make history not to write it.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

The past is a work of art free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

The past is a foreign country they do things differently there.

It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us.

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

History is philosophy learned from examples.

Don't brood on what's past but never forget it either.

We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

Noble acts and momentous events happen in the same way and produce the same impression as the ordinary facts.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.