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The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...

It was sheer professionalism and inspiration and the fact that you really cannot have people marching into other people's territory and staying there.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

History is past politics; and politics present history.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

While we read history we make history.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.