| Author |
Quotes |
| A Whitney Brown | The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. |
| A J P Taylor | History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past. |
| Abba Eban | History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. |
| Abraham Lincoln | I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. |
| Abraham Lincoln | Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. |
| Abraham Lincoln | The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. |
| Abram Joseph Ryan | A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history. |
| Adlai E Stevenson | She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow has warmed the world. |
| Adm James Stockdale | They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. |
| Adm Stansfield Turner | We talked for a few more minutes and then the president turned to the vice president and said he'd just narrowed the candidates to one. And my 31-year naval career flew out the window. |
| Adm William Halsey | There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. |
| Alan Alda | It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. |
| Aldous Huxley | That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach. |
| Alexander Pope | Wit is the lowest form of humor. |
| Alexis De Tocqueville | History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies |
| Anatole France | History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. |
| Arnold J Toynbee | History is a vision of God's creation on the move. |
| Arnold Schopenhauer | The man who sees two or three generations is like someone who sits in a conjurer's booth at a fair and sees the tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once. |
| Augustine Birrell | History is a pageant, not a philosophy. |
| Augustine Birrell | History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy. |
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