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“This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
“All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon”
“History, with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.”
“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.”
“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.”
“It's a very good historical book about history.”
“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”
“The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.”
“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.”
“Kings are the slaves of history.”
“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”
“Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.”
“The chief practical use of history is to deliver us from plausible historical analogies.”
“If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.”
“What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.”