The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions read more

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.

And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause read more

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something read more

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.