The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the read more

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.

The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the read more

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons read more

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

History is the devil's scripture.

History is the devil's scripture.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

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

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