History Quotes

"History is the record of what governments have done to mankind."

"History is the best teacher."

"The past cannot be changed; it can only be understood and learned from."

"The greatest monuments are often those built on the ruins of error."

"To understand history is to understand the present."

"History teaches us lessons that the present often forgets."

"Nations are not ruined by one bad harvest, but by a long succession of them."

"Those who forget history are condemned to repeat its mistakes."

"Nations rise and fall based on the decisions of their leaders."

"In the end, history judges not our popularity, but our integrity."

"Historic nations are not to be saved by the desertion of their institutions."

"History is full of examples of how the principles of one age become the absurdities of the next."

"History will absolve me, for I have written it beforehand."

"A nation without memory is a nation without future."

"A good historian is a prophet in reverse."

"To understand power is to understand history."

"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."

"There is a sacred veil to be drawn over the beginnings of all governments."

"One must always maintain one's connection to the past, for it is a source of meaning and identity."

"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory."

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

"History is but the record of human folly and wickedness."

"History teaches us that those who ignore it are condemned to repeat it."

"To understand history is to understand humanity."

"A nation that forgets its history is doomed to repeat it."

"To understand history, one must know the men who made it."

"History is not merely a record of events, but a teacher of lessons."

"I am as confident as I am of any opinion I hold, that mankind are not in general happier than they were a thousand years ago."

"We ought to venerate the past, but not be enslaved by it."

"The nation that forgets its history is doomed to repeat it."