Certain Quote by Herbert Butterfield

Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and…

— Frederick Pollock

History is the torch that is meant to illuminate the past, to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We…

— Claude Bowers

History is a relay of revolutions.

— Saul Alinsky

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us.

— Johan Huizinga

History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access…

— Colm Toibin

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

— Otto von Bismarck

I believe there's no such thing as history; there's only historians, and in English, we've got this word 'his'tory, but what about her story?…

— Peter Greenaway

“All history is present history in the sense that the concerns of the present are bound somehow to affect the way history is studied…

— Paul Cartledge

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

— Ted Koppel

“Most American ideas were a part of the great tradition of the eighteenth-century common-wealthmen, the radical Whig ideology that arose from a series of…

— Robert Middlekauff

“It is not acceptable that election winners interpret history. History should be left to historians who have a difficult task. They should try to…

— Eraldo Banovac