History Quotes

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

Winston Churchill, 11/30/1874 - 01/24/1965
British politician and Nobel Prize Laureate

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon

History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.

Ambrose Bierce

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Ronnie D. Laing

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

Karl Marx

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