Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
Anatole France

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs

Dorothy is the only woman in history who has had her menopause in public and made it pay.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy

This is what I wanted. They tell me that London is the best field in history. I wanted to be part of that. Because everyone will be there it will be a wonderful challenge for me. You can see the best runners, how they look, how they run. For me to beat the best is what counts.
Haile Gebrselassie

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
John Burroughs

The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
Aleister Crowley

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.
Gerald R. Ford

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Joseph Conrad

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Elizabeth II

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
James Baldwin

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
Bruce Springsteen

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
Vivienne Westwood

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.
Vivienne Westwood

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
William F. Buckley, Jr.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
Lord Acton

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
Lord Acton

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton