On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.

Don't get small units caught in between the forces of history.

Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history.

If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.

If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration.

Something new has happened: For the first time in German history our fatherland is guided by a plan that considers only the needs of the people, and aims at building prosperity and reconstructing of our fatherland.

When has there ever been a government in German history that came to the people and revealed its detailed plans for the coming years? That could not happen before, since German governments planned war and conquest.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.