What is history but a fable agreed upon?
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Tag: history quotations
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River the headline that afternoon would read: 'President Can't Swim.'
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
History is an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
History is an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.
History is more or less bunk.
History is more or less bunk.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world.
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way you will command the attention of the world.
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.