History: A boy who hears a lesson in history ended by the beauty of peace, and how Napoleon brought ruin upon the world and that he should be forever cursed, will not long have much confidence in his teacher. He wants to hear more about the fighting and less about the peace negotiations. ~William Lee Howard

History: A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. ~Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

History: A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay

History: A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay

History: A look at the past reminds us of how great is the distance, and how short, over which we have come. The past makes us ask what we have done with us. It makes us ask whether our very achievements are not ironical counterpoint and contrast to our fundamental failures. ~Robert Penn Warren

History: A lot of guys have had a lot of fun joking about Henry Ford because he admitted one time that he didn't know history. He don't know it, but history will know him. He has made more history than his critics ever read. ~Will Rogers

History: A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents. ~Richard Reeves