Rhodes, where history lies sleeping.
History Quotes
The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.
History is one of those few subjects about which practically everybody in a society – especially a democratic society – needs to know something… for the functioning of… any civilized society the mass of people must have some reasonable ability to read and write, some rudiments of humane literature, some simple mathematics – some historical […]
What has once happened, will invariably happen again, when the same circumstances which combined to produce it, shall again combine in the same way.
(History) – An unremitting conflict between good and evil powers, of which every act done by any one of us, insignificant as we are, forms one of the incidents; a conflict in which even the smallest of us cannot escape from taking part, in which whoever does not help the right side is helping the […]
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change, and that passe’ abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
History is a better guide than good intentions.
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
For my own part, I do not believe there is one word of historical truth in the whole book (The Bible). I look upon it at best to be a romance: the principal personage of which is an imaginary or allegorical character founded upon some tale.
