“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all...”

“A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.”

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

“The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.”

“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.”

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

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

“Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.”

“The past will not tell us what we ought to do but... what we ought to avoid.”

“You know that old phrase ‘Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it’? Well, I think those who remembe...”