I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.

And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

History does not always repeat itself.

History does not always repeat itself.

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed read more

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

History is philosophy learned from examples.

History is philosophy learned from examples.