The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up read more

I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all.

Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.

Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been different.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

History is written by the victors.

History is written by the victors.

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.