history
“Like Eden fruitful, like Arabia gay, England in native glory ever springs.”
“We loved the doctrine for the teacher's sake.”
“The cause of war is preparation for war.”
“The graveyards are full of indispensable men.”
“I think fiction rescues history from its confusions.”
“What each individual can do is dependent on the conditions given by history.”
“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”
“Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.”
“Pedigree, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a spring at the further end.”
“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment.”
“History can come in handy; knowing it makes you skeptical of official stories.”
“Nothing we did in those days has caused a change; because of what we did, things remained as they were.”
“History must be written by laws, not by chance.”
“We civilizations now know ourselves mortal.”
“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
“If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.”
“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.”