History Quotes

"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." "The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom." "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history." "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." "Behind every great fortune lies a great crime" "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual" "There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past" "The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand" "A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new" "Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were" "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" "History is written by the victors" "The past is never dead. It's not even past." "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it" "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it" "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her" "I shall return" "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away" "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid"