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

Harry S Truman

False history gets made all day, any day,the truth of the new is never on the news.

Adrienne Rich

HISTORY, n. An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

David Ben Gurion

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

David McCullough

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

E. L. Doctorow

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

George Santayana

What experience and history teach is this -- that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.

George Wilhelm Hegel

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

Max Beerbohm

To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.

Roy P. Basler

Do not applaud me. It is not I who speaks to you, but history which speaks through my mouth.

Fustel de Coulanges

Writing intellectual history is like trying to nail jelly to the wall.

William Hesseltine

History is not the accumulation of events of every kind which happened in the past. It is the science of human societies.

Fustel de Coulanges

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.

O. W. Holmes, Jr.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Gustave Flaubert

History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose.

J. H. Plumb

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

Robert Penn Warren

History is a myth that men agree to believe.

Napoleon

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

Voltaire

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

Edward Gibbon

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

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

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