Honest history is the weapon of freedom.

What makes a good writer of history is a guy who is suspicious. Suspicion marks the real difference between the man who wants to…

— Jim Bishop

The bourgeoisie is many times stronger than we. To give it the weapon of freedom of the press is to ease the enemy's cause,…

— Vladimir Lenin

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

— Lewis H. Lapham

Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.

— Antony Beevor

History can be a weapon, and it can be used against you.

— James W. Loewen

History is full of surprises.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

“Weapons cannot buy peace, but they can help us to not repeat history.”

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

“I knew I didn't have much of a chance of getting away from that swarm of fae piranha, but it was an infinitely larger…

— Jim Butcher

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

— St. Jerome

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

— Calista Flockhart

We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab…

— Mordechai Vanunu

No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than…

— Peter Hilton

A wall is a very big weapon. It's one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.

— Banksy

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out…

— Lyndon B. Johnson