A. A. Gill Quotes, Two Quotes, History Quotes

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

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Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?

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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.

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Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

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Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.

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Sometimes it can seem that history is turning in a wide arc, toward an unknown shore. Yet the destination of history is determined by human action, and every great movement of history comes to a point of choosing.

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There is properly no history, only biography.

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The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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History never repeats itself. Man always does.

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Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

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History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

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If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts.

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