41 Quotes by History

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Don’t confuse the truth with the opinion of the majority.

History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It’s been around a long time.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself – nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

There is no history of how bad became better.

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level.