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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar Wilde
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
History is a novel for which the people is the author.
Alfred de Vigny
History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity.
Dexter Perkins
Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
George Macaulay Trevelyan
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice - their choice.
Dwight David Eisenhower
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.
David C. McCullough
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
George Santayana
History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.
Charles Angoff
The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.
David Thelen
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