Arms Quote by Learned Hand

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

— Learned Hand

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

— Martin Heidegger

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory…

— Salman Rushdie

To cite the facts of history is to fall prey to 'moral equivalence,' or 'political correctness,' or 'the error of of atheism,' or one…

— Noam Chomsky

You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the…

— Gottfried Bohm

Everybody has different interpretations of history, but what they need to do is be supported in some form or fashion by fact.

— Clay Travis

I think I regard any history in quotes, because just like science, we're constantly revising science, we're constantly revising history.

— David S. Goyer

“History is made only by those who oppose history (not by those who insert themselves into it, or even reshape it).”

— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari

“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 not history unless it is the truth.

— Abraham Lincoln

“History is, after all, something that happened to people. No 'force' whether economic or political can act except as it acts through the minds…

— Priscilla Smith Robertson

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

— Romain Rolland