America Quote by David Means

Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.

— John Terraine

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

— Ambrose Bierce

Americans, more than most people, believe that history is the result of individual decisions to implement conscious intentions. For Americans, more than most people,…

— George Will

If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

— Ronald Reagan

If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

— Ronald Reagan

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

— JJ Feild

History is not history unless it is the truth.

— Abraham Lincoln

When self-important people and powerful institutions are governed by illusion, history has a way of biting back.

— William Greider

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

— George Santayana

History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.

— W. C. Sellar