History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

In 1974, the modeling world changed. Jerry Ford and my lawyer negotiated the deal for the first exclusive contract in modeling history.

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.