“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.”

“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”

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

“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.”

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

“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”

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