History is past politics; and politics present history.

History is past politics; and politics present history.

You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.

You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one read more

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.