One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Strangers are exciting their mystery never ends. But there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

Read no history: nothing but biography for that is life without theory.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

Indeed history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

History does nothing it does not possess immense riches it does not fight battles. It is men real living who do all this.

Whether in chains or in laurels liberty knows nothing but victories.