History is past politics; and politics present history.

History is past politics; and politics present history.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause read more

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons read more

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.

To many fame comes too late.

To many fame comes too late.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been read more

The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.