History Quotes - Page 30

It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

History is more or less bunk.

The highest condition of art is artlessness.

In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met with by the way

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were political enemies, but they became fast friends. And when they passed away on the same day, the last words of one of them was, The country is safe. Jefferson still lives. And the last words of the other was, John Adams will see that things go forward.

if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.

A new future requires a new past.

It is the winners who write history - their way.

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

I'm working on restoring a cabinet over the obstruction of Senate Democrats. It will be one of the great cabinets ever assembled in American history.

Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

History remembers most what you did last.

Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.

History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.