Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
Those who do not learn from history deserve to have it erased.
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
We had run more than fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty leagues, and we had completed going round the earth from East to West.
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked.
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
In the year 1497 the king Dom Manuel despatched four ships to make discoveries and search for spices.
The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves.
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
The striking differences between the long-term histories of peoples of the different continents have been due not to innate differences in the peoples themselves but to differences in their environments.
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.
