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“History is not another name for the past as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.”
“With malice toward none with charity for all with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right let us strive on to finish the work we are in to bind up the nation's wounds.”
“War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.”
“History is past politics and politics present history.”
“When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are wrong.”
“More history's made by secret handshakes than by battles bills and proclamations.”
“History n: an account mostly false of events mostly unimportant which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves and soldiers mostly fools.”
“The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.”
“History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.”
“The world's history is constant like the laws of nature and simple like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.”
“History is something that never happened written by a man who wasn't there.”
“History a distillation of rumor”
“There is properly no history only biography.”
“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes follies and misfortunes of mankind.”
“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”
