Anecdotes Quote by Nicolas Chamfort

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

— Nicolas Chamfort

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

— Raymond Queneau

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a…

— Benjamin Hooks

I do not want history to record me as someone who has bequeathed to his nation the institution of despotism.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

The history of any nation is not only a succession of events, but also a chain of ideas.

— Pyotr Chaadayev

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past,…

— Eric Hobsbawm

“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

— Ambrose Bierce

There is no history, only histories.

— Karl Popper

History is the memory of a nation

— Thomas Sowell

My country has no history, only a past.

— Alden Nowlan

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel