A generation which ignores history has no past – and no future.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a myth gives a story of the substances that cast the shadows.
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself.
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Anyone who believes you can’t change history has never tried to write his memoirs.
Black history is American history.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.
Condemn me, it does not matter, history will absolve me.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Each one writes history according to his convenience.
Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
