Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal and history only the particular.

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

History repeats itself first as tragedy second as farce.

I think really China Chinese I think they really have a long history of civilization rich culture.

For my part I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history especially as I propose to write that history myself.

History is written by the victors.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.