History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes

History doesn't repeat itself - at best it sometimes rhymes

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will read more

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

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

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

History is past politics; and politics present history.

History is past politics; and politics present history.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

History is just a portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.

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.