historians

The game of History is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past historians can - it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

History is a vast early warning system.

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

In essence the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.

History is more or less bunk.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy and it always feels uncomfortable.

With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

I never realized that there was history close at hand beside my very own home. I did not realize that the old grave that stood among the brambles at the foot of our farm was history.

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Insurance companies sell what might happen tomorrow. Historians sell what certainly happened yesterday.