Books Quote by Margaret Thatcher

For historians, hindsight can be a treacherous ally. Enabling us to trace the hidden patterns of past events, it beguiles us with the mirage…

— Eric Foner

The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.

— Clive James

Hindsight is the historian's necessary vice.

— Hilary Mantel

“Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.”

— J. Christopher Herold

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving.

— John Fletcher

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

— Kate Morton

Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action.

— Nelson Mandela

We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

— T. F. Tout

The saying, "Those that don't learn from history are condemned to repeat it" doesn't just apply to politicians and world leaders, it applies to…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Although distortion of the past is widespread, the most common travesty is one of omission, wherein populist leaders neglect to mention the crimes committed…

— Richard Ashby Wilson

The worst thing for a politician is to try and cling to power by every possible means, and focus only on that.

— Vladimir Putin

It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.

— Egemen Bag?s