History does not unfold: it piles up..

One age is like another for the soul..

God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past..

"Historians of every generation, I believe, unless they are pure antiquarians, see history against the background - the controlling background - of c….

The tapestry of history is woven of many threads..

Here is a shared memory that we didn't share, forgot to share, for almost ninety years..

History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for….

Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted,but whose effects n….

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors..

Historian - a broad-gauge gossip..

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby inv….

Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever..

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to inter….

Never say more than is necessary..

I am not here for women only, but also for women..

Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity. . . . But the t….

Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that the….

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear..

Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar..

Though anti-Semitism had been only one of several sources of Nazi voting strength, after 1933 Hitler placed anti-Semitic ideologues, the most importa….

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way..