History is now strictly organized, powerfully disciplined, but it possesses only a modest educational value and even less conscious social purpose..

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere..

History is the study of lies, anyway, because no witness ever recalls events with total accuracy, not even eyewitnesses..

Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specia….

war with poison and chemicals was not so rare in the ancient world ... An astounding panoply of toxic substances, venomous creatures, poison plants, ….

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical h….

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within..

The Japanese couldn't have been all bad during World War II. Look at all the movies Hollywood was able to make on account of them. The Indians weren'….

In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine..

We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... W….

I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a private, why, my chances were so much the bet….

[T]he historian and the detective have much in common..

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them..

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are..

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions..

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders..

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present..

Completeness is rare in history..

The Germans could not get over the perfidy of it. It was unbelievable that the English, having degenerated to the stage where suffragettes heckled th….

History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations..

It is proverbial, of course, that man never learns from history, and, as a rule, in respect to a problem of the present, it can teach us simply nothi….