History

QUOTES

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
 H G Wells
 The Outline of History, 1920

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
 LP Hartley
 The Go-Between, 1953

That great dust-heap called 'history.'
 Augustine Birrell
 Obiter Dicta, 1884

Just because history is written by the victors does not necessarily mean that it is false. Therefore, revisionist history should always be suspect. Better still, all history should be suspect.
 Col B DPerry
 Suspect History,

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
 H W F Hegel
 Lectures, 1830

History is more or less bunk.
 Henry Ford
 1916

History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.
 Konrad Adenauer
 

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
 Napoleon Bonaparte
 

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books!
 Montesquieu
 1755

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