The best Quotes and Sayings about History

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

People of the world - look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.

This is for the record. History is written by the victor. History is filled with liars. If he lives and we die, his truth becomes written - and ours is lost.

If we don't mind our own histories, it will do the same to us.

A historian is a hunter, my lord. Seeking out signs in the undergrowth of correspondence and memoir, tracking prey via the spoor of memory.

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

History is a living thing. Paper is dead.

You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school.

History repeats itself, and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn't.

I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

Presidents who obsess over history obsess about their place in it, instead of forging it.

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.