History Quote by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future”

— Morris West

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

Even victors are by victories undone.

— John Dryden

Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.

— George Eliot

“History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren’t there,…

— Kapka Kassabova

History is the lies of the victors,

— Julian Barnes

History is written by the victors--and when there is no victors, it all winds up in the corporate shredders.

— Neal Shusterman

The true victors in life are those who, enduring repeated challenges and setbacks, have sentthe roots of their being to such a depth that…

— Senora Roy

“I dispute the point that nuclear energy is 'clean' and 'cost-effective'. As I recall, when we first harnessed nuclear power it was to drop…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

History is written by the victors. The victors in daily life tend to be those who live longest.

— David Hepworth

“History is written by the victors,’ she said, ‘but the truth has a way of revealing itself.”

— Sebastien de Castell

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

— Edna O'Brien

Napoleon was asked, "Who do you consider to be the greatest generals?" He responded saying, "The victors.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.

— George William Russell

In modern warfare there are no victors; there are only survivors.

— Lyndon B. Johnson