“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”

“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”

“The main thing is to make history, not to write it”

“It may be argued that the past is a country from which we have all emigrated, that its loss is part of our common humani...”

“The key to our scientific future,....is hidden in our past”

“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”

“Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.”

“History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.”

“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation...”

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

“History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”

“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”