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1. "History is a selective interpretation of events designed to justify those currently in power. Memory is the same thing on an individual scale."

Anon.

Quotations about: Memory

2. "One matter Englishmen don't think in the least funny is their happy consciousness of possessing a deep sense of humour."

Marshall McLuhan

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

3. "The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman."

Willa Cather, "O Pioneers!"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

4. "The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians."

William Ralph Inge (Dean Inge), "End of an Age"

Quotations about: Various

5. "History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."

Philip Guedalla, "Supers and Supermen"

6. "The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."

Arthur Koestler, "Janus"

Quotations about: Peace and War

7. "On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners."

George Mikes

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

8. "An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one."

George Mikes

9. "History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Pro Publio Sestio"

10. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

George Santayana, "The Life of Reason"

11. "Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role."

Dean Gooderham Acheson

12. "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

Herbert George Wells, "Outline of History"

Quotations about: Education

13. "How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?"

Charles de Gaulle

Quotations about: Authority, Government

14. "If my theory of relativity is proven correct, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. "

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Science and Technology -:- Success and Fame

15. "The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. "

Sir Thomas Beecham

Quotations about: Art and Culture

16. "The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

17. "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."

Winston Churchill

18. "History is written by the victors."

Anon.

19. "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Richness and Money

20. "The only lesson history has taught us is that man has not yet learned anything from history."

Anon.

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21. "Women don't make history, they complicate it."

Anon.

Quotations about: Woman and Man

22. "No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history."

William Hazlitt

Quotations about: Talent and Genius

23. "The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven."

Benjamin Disraeli, "Tancred"

24. "The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

25. "A king is history's slave."

Lev Tolstoy, "War and Peace"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

26. "The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."

Helen Keller

27. "We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

Martin Luther King

28. "The one duty we owe to history is to re-write it."

Oscar Wilde

29. "History would be an excellent thing if only it were true."

Lev Tolstoy

30. "The United States never lost a war or won a conference."

Will Rogers

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

31. "Happy the people whose annals are tiresome."

Charles Louis de Montesquieu

32. "Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it."

Oscar Wilde

33. "Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

Lev Tolstoy

Quotations about: Science and Technology -:- Question and Problem

34. "It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."

Mark Twain

35. "A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future."

Robert A. Heinlein

Quotations about: Youth and Age

36. "Mankind which began in a cave and behind a windbreak will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum."

Herbert George Wells

Quotations about: Human

37. "Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct."

Arthur Schopenhauer

38. "History is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

39. "We [Israel] have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative."

Golda Meir

Quotations about: Peace and War

40. "No nation ever had two better friends that we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific oceans."

Will Rogers

41. "To wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy

42. "Nationality is respectable only when it is on the defence, when it is waging wars of liberation it is sacred; when those of domination it is accursed."

Rabindranath Tagore

Quotations about: Patriotism

43. "History is the lie commonly agreed upon."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

44. "History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."

Alexis de Tocqueville

45. "Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful."

Gustave Flaubert

46. "Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war."

Winston Churchill

Quotations about: Peace and War

47. "Moses dragged us [Jews] for 40 years through the desert to bring us to the one place in the Middle East where there was no oil."

Golda Meir

48. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

Winston Churchill, speech at Fulton, Missouri, 1946

49. "The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

50. "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

Thomas Jefferson

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

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