Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

History is His story.

The highways of history are strewn with the wreckage of the nations that forgot God.

We learn from history that we don't learn from history.

Well, everybody has a history.

History is but the polemics of the victor.

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state; An hour may lay it in the dust.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

History is philosophy teaching by examples.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.