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It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Woodrow Wilson
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.
Henry Ford
If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.
C. S. Lewis
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl Marx
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. Forbes
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
H. L. Mencken
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield
I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me.
Brian Clough
The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
George W. Bush
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.
George Orwell
Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
Jonathan Sacks
The men who make history have not time to write it.
Klemens Von Metternich
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
Mark Twain
