Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

History is a vast early warning system.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

History never looks like history when you are living through it.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

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

History is an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

History is more or less bunk.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

We would like to live as we once lived but history will not permit it.

Study history study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.