All history is only one long story to this effect: men have struggled for power over their fellowmen in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others, and might shift the burden of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.
History Quotes
Things just happen, one after another. They don’t care who knows But “history” – ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it’s not history. It’s just – well, things happening one after another.
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece.
Life is one tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.
Give the historians something to write about.
History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.
And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?
The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been “great changes.”
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.
