He who doesn’t understand history is doomed to repeat it.

One day, we will sit together and remember how we changed things. We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will...

History is written by the winners.

For me, the consolation of history resides in the fact that hypothetically returning to any point in time feels like coming home.

We have active and retired members who participated in the largest rescue in this nation’s history, and they want that site respected for what it is,

For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget.

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.

That was awesome. That was really cool, getting to meet one of the great power pitchers in the history of the game.

The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features...

The more they got into this, the more it seemed they had kind of a Shakespearean history, … By that, I mean there’s love and hate, and life and death, and revenge, betrayal and greed...

Memory is not an instrument for surveying the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried. He who seeks...

It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago.

The biggest challenge facing the great teachers and communicators of history is not to teach history itself, nor even the lessons of history, but why history matters. How to ignite the first spark of the...

I personally recall that world, which you can only imagine was preferable to this one,’ she said. ‘Eras are conveniences, particularly for those who never experienced them. We carve history from totalities beyond our grasp....

normal,” sane men and women are capable of evil, then the atrocities perpetrated during the Holocaust and other genocides could be repeated today and into the future.Yet, this is exactly the lesson we must learn...

The riders, clad in crimson and black, stopped to scan the maze. Blaise shrank into the hedge, but one keen-eyed hunter spied him. He raised his crossbow, took careful aim and fired.

Those institutions which are static in their nature raise walls of division; this is why, in the history of religions, priesthood has always maintained dissensions and hindered the freedom of man. But the principle of...

It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.

And make no mistake about it, this attack was not just against ourselves or the Republic of Korea. This was the Soviet Union against the world and the moral precepts which guide human relations among...

There’s no crying in the rank book.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

Your son is heir to an enormous fortune and name. Someone would be bound to bid for you him and take him as his ward.

We were each of us trying; trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.

Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow.

Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift.If history itself had a color, it is . . . like wood or bark,...

Considerable thought was given in early Congresses to the possibility of renaming the country. From the start, many people recognized that United States of America was unsatisfactory. For one thing, it allowed of no convenient...

We know we’re not a title-contending team right now, but in the history of teams winning titles they tend to take their lumps for a little while before they finally get there.

History isn’t written by the winners – it’s written by everyone – it’s a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every once in a while, you unearth that one original document that no one...

Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied...

Darnley, who, like Banquo’s ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

a man who did a huge service for the world’s modern history.

There are moments when one feels a desperate gratitude for museums, whatever their own ambiguous histories. Their objects from lost cities lead us back to who we are.

If everyone knows so much about it, why do they need to make a documentary?

One who has lived through the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese war lords feels something that a younger generation does not concerning the aberrations that are possible in this world.

This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all...

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

That is the way we decided to talk, free and easy, two young men discussing a boxing match. That was the only way to talk. You couldn’t let too much truth seep into your conversation,...

A final word should be said concerning the status of free blacks. Before the American Revolution this status had been ambiguous, and the number of free blacks was insignificant. A rash of new laws, similar...

This corner of history was as real as the tiled floor under our feet or the wooden tabletop under our fingers. The people to whom it had happened had actually lived and breathed and felt...

People say you’re born innocent, but it’s not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You inherit your identity, your history, like a birthmark that you can’t wash off....

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.