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Otto von Bismarck
4 quotes“The main thing is to make history, not to write it”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
3 quotes“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”
Edmund Burke
3 quotes“History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.”
Barbara Tuchman
3 quotes“Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.”
Tocqueville
2 quotes“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
Heinrich Heine
2 quotes“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”
Chuck Palahniuk
2 quotes“History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.”
Lord Byron
2 quotes“History is the devil's scripture.”
Gertrude Stein
2 quotes“This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.”