History Quotes

Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

History repeats itself.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

Before us men have flourished just as we now flourish: others yet again shall be, whose generations we shall never see.

The man who ventures to write contemporary history must expect to be attacked both for everything he has said and everything he has not said.

What is history but the obituary of nations?

They that would know what shall be must consider what hath been.

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of government. The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.