6,230 Quotes About History

Once you've given away one freedom, it is rarely given back voluntarely.

Once you've given something away, history has shown, that whatever you gave, is rarely given back voluntarely. Remember, 'something' includes your right to eat what you like, say what you think, go where you please or choose to associate with.

Once you've given something away, history has shown, that whatever you gave, is rarely given back voluntarely. Remember, 'something' includes your right to eat what you like, say what you think, go where you please or choose to associate with. Thus when it is suggested you hand over something that belongs to you, always ask yourself whether it is worth the risk of never getting it back.

Because theories of history differ, and because a historian's theory affects his account of events, it is necessary to read more than one account of the history of an event or period if we want to understand it. Indeed, this is the first rule of reading history. ... we cannot hope to understand it if we look at it through the eyes of only one man, or one side, or one faction of modern academic historians.

Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material.

I just don't see why the past has to matter.

Even if your history was erased because of some power. Don’t give up bcoz it flows in your veins ....Rewrite it if u must!

We’re reaching a point in human history, where we will have to reimagine imagination itself. The boundaries of what the human mind could fathom, even just a few short years ago, are changing and extending. As the landscape shifts, we will need a new cartography and new skills to go with it.

After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as weird and remote from our own as Middle Earth or Narnia, yet oddly familiar.