You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

The Thames is liquid history.

Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.

The history of England, who has always dealt most harshly with her vanquished foe in the few European wars in which she has taken part in modern times, gives us Germans an idea of the fate in store for us if defeated.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979.