Action Quote by Tacitus

The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should…

— Anonymous

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

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she…

— Edward Gibbon

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon…

— Anonymous

“The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a…

— Tosca Lee

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

— Winston Churchill

In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application of other…

— Walter Raleigh

The dignity of history.

— Henry Fielding

I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at…

— Terry Deary

“History would not be what it is, the record of man’s crimes and follies, if logic and decency governed its events and great decisions.”

— Ladislas Farago

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

— C. V. Wedgwood

“Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.”

— Daniel Nayeri