Affair Quote by Margaret MacMillan

History should be about every generation's will to power.

— Cody Wilson

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in…

— Robert Kennedy

History is always best written generations after the event, when clouded fact and memory have all fused into what can be accepted as truth,…

— Theodore White

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to…

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery,…

— Anonymous

The way we live history is not the way historians tell history. Our lives are messy and chaotic and bewildering.

— David Grann

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

History is not what you think. It is what you can remember.

— W. C. Sellar

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

— John Hope Franklin

History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

— George Santayana

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

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov