Battle Quote by Lloyd deMause

I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a…

— Anonymous

But I see history as a book with many pages--and each day we fill a page with acts of hopefulness and meaning.

— George H. W. Bush

Most books, after all, are ephemeral; their specifics, several years later, inspire about as much interest as daily battle reports from the Hundred Years'…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The only good histories are those written by those who had command in the events they describe.

— Michel de Montaigne

A lot of people we tell the story to assume that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were actually part of the original Washington…

— Roberto Orci

“There are many ways to tell the history of the world. Oral histories that were later written down, including the Book of Genesis, the…

— Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks

History is in the past and tomorrow we will try and write a new page.

— Didier Deschamps

“Actually I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect 'history' to be anything but a 'long defeat'…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

— Henry James

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of…

— Celine Buckens

I am trying to reach people who would not normally head for the history section of a book shop or a library to try…

— Princess Michael of Kent