The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies..

Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detaile….

I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding..

history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to awareness..

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, ci….

What man is, only his history tells..

History, in a democratic age, tends to become a series of popular apologies, and is inclined to assume that the people can do no wrong..

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons..

I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs..

Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to….

The law of unintended consequences is the only real law of history..

In Stalin's Russia racial persecution was often disguised as class warfare. More than 1.5 million members of ethnic minorities died as a result of fo….

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor….

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers..

The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist..

We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied..

The writing of histories - as Goethe once noted - is one way of getting rid of the weight of the past.... The writing of history liberates us from hi….

Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements.".

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians..

My ideal man is Benjamin Franklin-the figure in American history most worthy of emulation ... Franklin is my ideal of a whole man. ... Where are the ….

History -- its what those bitter old men write..