Best history quotes

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it. (Oscar Wilde)

Whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty’s lamp guiding your steps and opportunity’s arm steadying your way. (Ronald Reagan)

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. (Mark Twain)

History is a set of lies agreed upon. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future. (Miguel Cervantes)


History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs,—privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof. (Thomas Fuller)

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. (Winston Churchill)

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. (Cicero)

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions. (Tacitus)

It is not worthwhile to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man’s character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible. (Mark Twain)

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