"The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity - or it will move apart."

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it."

"Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions."

"With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own"

"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder."

"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility -- I welcome it."

"History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside."

"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."

History nowadays is not a matter of conviction. It’s a performance. It’s entertainment. And if it isn’t, make it so.

It's subjunctive history. You know, the subjunctive? The mood used when something may or may not have happened. When it is imagined.

History is just one fucking thing after another.

History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another

There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was that I was going off to do another degree in the history of art. I would have ended up as some art historian at Sotheby's or something.

My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do.

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.

Women often get dropped from memory, and then history.

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”