"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." -- Winston Churchill
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
“History repeats itself, the first time as tragedy; the second time as farce.” Karl Marx.
The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. Harry Truman
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. George Bernard Shaw
"History does not entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid." Dwight D. Eisenhower
"The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind" Rousseau
"If you cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded."-- Karl Marx
"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force." Ayn Rand, in "The Nature of Government"