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History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that.

Robert Penn Warren

[History is] little else than a long succession of useless cruelties.

[History is] little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Anyone who is going to make anything out of history will, sooner or later, have to do most of the work himself. He will have to read, and consider, and reconsider, and then read some more.

Geoffrey Barraclough

History is not narration' as Thierry thought, nor analysis as Guizot thought, it is resurrection.

Michelet

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Harry S Truman

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Marge Piercy

History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development

Friedrich Engels

History is the ship carrying living memories to the future

Stephen Spender

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Karl Marx

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Will Durant

[History] may be called, more generally still, the Message, verbal or written, which all Mankind delivers to everyman.

Thomas Carlyle

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

George Santayana

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

Edward Gibbon

The course of History reflects a continual contest between limited, orderly processes of development and historical accident.

H. Cord Meyer

History would be an impossible area of human reflection if there were no recurrent attributes of human nature.

Willson H. Coates

The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.

Crane Brinton

"History" is the name we as human beings give to the horizon of consciousness within which we live.

Harvey Cox

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.

David Hume

History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws.

August Comte

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

Henry Adams

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