On This Site in 1897

We cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln

History is more or less bunk. - Henry Ford

There is no reason to repeat bad history. - Eleanor Holmes Norton

What Washington needs is adult supervision. - Barack Obama

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia Woolf

If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. - Harry S Truman

That great dust-heap called 'history'. - Augustine Birrell

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. - Edward R. Murrow

Live out of your imagination, not your history. - Stephen Covey

The main thing is to make history, not to write it. - Otto von Bismarck

We are not makers of history. We are made by history. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. - Anatole France

We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg W F Hegel

U.S. history - that's part of your whole American heresy. - Archie Bunker

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. - Konrad Adenauer

Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher

The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. - Harry S Truman

If some countries have too much history, we have too much geography. - William Lyon Mackenzie King

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. - Lord Acton

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. - Henry James

The Spanish assailed the unassailable, the Dutch defended the indefensible. - Unknown

There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much. - Noam Chomsky

Keyboard Plaque: The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on computer keyboards - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. - Oprah Winfrey

There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good. - Stephen Colbert

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be. - Vincent Canby

If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us. - Unknown

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present. - Bil Keane

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi

Over the years, I learned so much from mom. She taught me about the importance of home and history and family and tradition. - Martha Stewart

A doctor who cannot take a good history and a patient who cannot give one are in danger of giving and receiving bad treatment. - Unknown

The Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower. They're monumental. They're straight out of Page 52 in your school history book. - Billy Crystal

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. - Robert Frost

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch Ratcliffe

Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. - Donald Trump

He's ... probably the greatest corporate leader in the history of a major company... Somebody like that would be absolutely incredible. - Donald Trump

Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness. - Lewis B Smedes

There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in. - Kay Boyle

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants. - Ralph Waldo Emerson