The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
History Quotes
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.
History knows no resting place and no plateaus.
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.
Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men that died for them.
We will hereafter believe less history than ever, now that we have seen how it is made.
(Man’s) history is a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a ruin.
Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions.
History seems to us an arena of instincts and fashions, of appetite, avarice, and craving for power, of blood lust, violence, destruction, and wars, of ambitious ministers, venal generals, bombarded cities, and we too easily forget that this is only one of its many aspects. Above all we forget that we ourselves are a part […]
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription moulders from the tablet; the statue falls from the pedestal. – Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand, and their epitaphs but characters written in the dust?
