Histoire

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

“And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.”

“The past is not dead; it is not even past.”

“The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”

“No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.”

“Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.”

“That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”

“The Eagle has landed.”

“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.”

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”

“War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.”

“A society that does not remember its history has no future.”

“The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the modern commander.”

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires.”

“When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible.”

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.”

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.”

“A nation that has lost its sense of history has lost its sense of direction.”

“Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

“I am here to open up Central Africa to civilization.”

“The nation that does not know its history is doomed to repeat it.”

“Estonia is not a post-Soviet state. We are a state that was occupied by the Soviet Union.”