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Page 2History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history. Clarence Darrow
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. Aldous Huxley
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H G Wells
History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. People get the history they deserve. Charles de Gaulle
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. Konrad Adenauer
In history the way of annihilation is invariably prepared by inward degeneration, by decrease of life. Only then can a shock from outside put an end to the whole. Jakob Burckhardt
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth. Jules Michelet
The men who make history have no time to write about it. Prince Klemens von Metternich
Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs. David Ben Gurion
Blood alone moves the wheels of history. Benito Mussolini
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will-but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world-faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity. George F Kennan
History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature. David Hume
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other. Philip Guedalla