If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.
All our knowledge is symbolic.
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
Happy people have no history.
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
We are either kings or pawns of men.
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Give me liberty or give me death.
Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
History never repeats itself. Man always does.
History is a bath of blood.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
Do what you will, this world’s a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
We had to do what we had to do – Britain is great again.
History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It’s been around a long time.
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.