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This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would…

— Tacitus

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a…

— Tacitus

The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and…

— Tacitus

The dignity of history.

— Henry Fielding

History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she…

— Edward Gibbon

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

— Winston Churchill

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other…

— Walter Raleigh

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more…

— Louise Penny

One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“One person's actions can alter the course of history, and a political or military mischance can touch off a catastrophic reaction that has repercussions…

— Timothy Venning