Happy is the nation without a history.

History is a pageant, not a philosophy.

I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

The dignity of history.

What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great?

And history with all her volumes vast, Hath but one page.

All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.

History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

History, a distillation of rumor.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.

What more would you have? He has invented history.

The contact with manners then is education; and this Thucydides appears to assert when he says history is philosophy learned from examples.

Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

There is properly no history, only biography.