“History is written by the victors.” – Winston Churchill
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana
“The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.” – Theodore Roosevelt
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” – Winston Churchill
“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.” – Lord Acton
“History is a vast early warning system.” – Norman Cousins
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” – William Faulkner
“History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” – David McCullough
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” – Mark Twain
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.” – Alexis de Tocqueville
“The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.” – Harry S. Truman
“What is history but a fable agreed upon?” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.” – Ronald Wright
“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Study the past if you would define the future.” – Confucius
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” – H.G. Wells
“To know nothing of what happened before you were born is to remain forever a child.” – Cicero
“The best prophet of the future is the past.” – Lord Byron
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” – Voltaire
“History is written by the survivors.” – Max Lerner
“History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.” – Stephen Spender
“History is no more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.” – Edward Gibbon
“In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember.” – W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman
“History is philosophy teaching by examples.” – Thucydides
“History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.” – Malcolm X
“The duty of history is to collect facts, not to construct systems.” – Lord Acton
“Revolutions are the locomotives of history.” – Karl Marx
“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.” – Abba Eban
“History is nothing if not the story of change.” – William Least Heat-Moon
“A historian is a prophet in reverse.” – Friedrich von Schlegel
“The past changes a little every time we retell it.” – Hilary Mantel
“The wheel of history turns, and nations rise and fall.” – Unknown
“History is the torch that illuminates the future.” – Unknown
“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.” – Thomas Carlyle
“History is an argument without end.” – Pieter Geyl
“History repeats itself. So does the need for change.” – Unknown
“History has remembered the kings and warriors because they destroyed; art has remembered the people because they created.” – William Morris
“Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.” – George Santayana
“The great events of history are often due to the unsung actions of unknown people.” – Howard Zinn
“History is made by those who show up.” – Benjamin Franklin
“The history of the world is the story of the struggle between liberty and tyranny.” – Woodrow Wilson
“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.” – Cotton Mather
“History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.” – George Santayana
“All history is contemporary history.” – Benedetto Croce