History Quotes

"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries" "History is written by the victors" "The past is never dead. It's not even past." "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it" "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it" "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her" "I shall return" "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away" "History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid" "For my people everywhere singing their slave songs repeatedly their dirges and their ditties and their blues and jubilees" "That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history" "What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past" "I've known rivers" "The past is never dead It’s not even past"