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

— Egemen Bag?s

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

History is often not what actually happened but what is recorded as such.

— Henry L. Stimson

It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of…

— Henry A. Kissinger

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

— David Weinberger

The only significance of analyzing the past is that it does give us some key to the future.

— John F. Kennedy

The past in the hands of historians is not what it was.

— Lynn Townsend White, Jr

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.

— William Ralph Inge

I'm not especially interested in the job of the historian or journalist of trying to figure out what was true and what was not.

— Jonathon Keats

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

— Ludwig von Mises

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

— Benjamin Franklin