* "The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." - Harry S. Truman
* "The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." - L. P. Hartley
* "History is not what happened; it's what historians write." - A.J.P. Taylor
* "History is bunk." - Henry Ford
* "The history of the world is the history of war." - Barbara W. Tuchman
* "History is a set of lies agreed upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte
* "The only thing that history teaches us is that history repeats itself." - Anatole France
* "History is written by the winners." - Winston Churchill
* "The past is a ghost; the future a dream; and the present is the only moment of time that we have." - Gustave Flaubert