Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
The arch of history is long, but it bends towards justice.
What britain needs is an iron lady.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
History is a relentless master. it has no present, only the past rushing into the future. to try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible that in any profane history.
History is more or less bunk.
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. cultivate peace and harmony with all.
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. lies will pass into history.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.
Read no history nothing but biography for that is life without theory.