Favour Quote by Douglas Hurd

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

— Shinzo Abe

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

— Antony Beevor

Politicians have been downplaying the importance of history as a subject in our schools but, if they had bothered to have a better grasp…

— Tony Robinson

History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

— Ted Koppel

History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it…

— Henry Steele Commager

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

It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.

— Egemen Bag?s

History is rooted in the future

— Terence McKenna

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually…

— Zephyr Teachout

Some say, 'Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.' I say, 'Those who ignore history are in for a big surprise.'

— Stephen Colbert

The idea that historians aren't affected by what goes on around them I think is slightly fanciful.

— Kwasi Kwarteng

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present,…

— Robert Kennedy