History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had read more

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

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.

Give the historians something to write about.

Give the historians something to write about.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.

History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

The men who make history have not time to write it.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits read more

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Happy is the nation without a history.

Happy is the nation without a history.