What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

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Voltaire

Our history is every human history; a black and gory business, with more scoundrels than wise men at the lead, and more louts than both put together to cheer and follow.

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Ismeretlen

For me there is no greater subject than history. How a man can study it and not be forced to become a philosopher, I cannot tell.

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Ismeretlen

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

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Ismeretlen

A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations.

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Ismeretlen

The obscurest epoch is today.

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Ismeretlen

Woe unto the defeated,
whom history treads
into the dust.

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Ismeretlen

Perhaps nobody has changed the course of history as much as the historians.

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Ismeretlen

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

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Ismeretlen

Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

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