History Quote by Ralph Peters

“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who…

— Anthony Doerr

“Truth to tell, at any point in our lives we’ve forgotten more than we know about our own history. The world moves on, and…

— Dathan Auerbach

“History teaches us many things. Most importantly, the things that made us who and what we are.”

— Robert Bonville

“What history will say about us is of no importance; because we will be gone when the history judges about us.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“History is nothing but the lies we tell about our ancestors”

— Robert Irwin

“Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. You have to expose who you are so that you can determine what…

— Cynthia A. Patterson

“History is a record of good choices and bad, the people who made them, and the consequences of those choices.”

— John Edgell

“A lot of what we know to be history isn’t…it serves a purpose. Events are exaggerated, heroes fabricated, goals are rewritten to appear more…

— Louise Penny

“HIstory collects secrets like politicians collect lies.”

— Steve Robinson

“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly…

— Carl Sagan

“A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.”

— George W. Bush

“If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious,…

— John Bagot Glubb