England Quote by Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply.…

— Simon Jenkins

The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West…

— Jill Lepore

The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early…

— Robert Darnton

History is the record of human progress, a record of the struggle of the advancement of the human mind, of the human spirit, towards…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

It's always good to be somewhere with some history, maybe that's England, which has a long history.

— Curt Smith

I think it is vitally important to study History. If we are going to lead Britain safely into the future, it is essential that…

— Tony Blair

The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of…

— Leon Trotsky

History is the invention of historians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The history of life was not the bumbling progress - the very English, middle-class progress - Victorian thought had wanted it to be, but…

— Salman Rushdie

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Historians like a quiet life, and usually they get it. For the most part, history moves at a deliberate pace, working its changes subtly…

— Simon Schama