All history, of course, is the history of wars.

All history, of course, is the history of wars.

Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.

Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.

The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.

History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

History: An account, mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than
once.

All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than
once.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed read more

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.

The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of
furnishing very few materials for history, which is read more

The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of
furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little
more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.