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Interesting quotes about and from history.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. -H.L. Mencken


The obscurest epoch is today. -Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains


Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust. -Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon


Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians. -Franklin P. Jones


The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. -Michel de Montaigne, translated


Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes. -Jean Jaures


History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army. -Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History


Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? -John Leonard


Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them. -Guy Fregault, La guerre de la conquête


Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. -Jean Genet


History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. -Walter Rauschenbusch


Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. -Richard Ellman


The Past lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body. -Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables


History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. -Paul Eldridge, Maxims for a Modern Man


Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation. -Conor Cruise O'Brien


Princes should have more to fear from historians than have ugly women from great painters. -Antonio Pérez, Aforismos


If you go back through 2000 years, I guess luck, Marx, and God have made history, the three of them together. -Theodore White


The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present. -David Thelen


History is merely gossip. -Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan


Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. -William Cowper, The Task, The Garden


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