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The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
Tacitus (c. 55-c. 120) Roman historian
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana (1863-1952) American philosopher, poet
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) German social philosopher, revolutionary
Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.
Anonymous
History is Philosophy teaching by examples.
Henry St. John (Viscount Bolingbroke) (1678-1751) English politician, intriguer
But what experience and historian teach is this. — that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on the principles deduced from it.
Georg Hegel (1770-1831) German philosopher
History is bunk.
Henry Ford (1863-1947) American industrialist
There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) American president
Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.
Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, wit
The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.
Frederic W. Maitland (1850-1906) English writer on law
History, a distillation of Rumour.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish author
Ancient histories are but fables that have been agreed upon.
Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, author
History is the crystallization of popular beliefs.
Donn Piatt (1819-1891) American journalist
Gossip is none the less gossip because it comes from venerable antiquity.
Mandell Creighton (1843-1901) English prelate, historian
If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
History is better written from letters . . . No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
Lord Acton (1834-1902) English historian
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalization of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner (b. 1902) American academic
History. An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) American author
History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) English historian
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
Hendrik Van Loon (1882-1944) American journalist, historian
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
Carl Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
Malcolm Bradbury (b. 1932) British author
That great dust-heap called “history.”
Augustine Birrell (1850-1933) British Liberal politician
