History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true..

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter..

I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dre….

For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception….

History does not usually make real sense until long afterward..

I have no history but the length of my bones..

Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging..

I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk.….

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul..

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened..

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy..

History is clarified experience..

My country has no history, only a past..

Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this b….

Some people make headlines while others make history..

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world..

History in the making is a very uncertain thing. It might be better to wait till the South American republic has got through withits twenty-fifth rev….

In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance b….

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, ….

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust..

All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germa….