Napoleon Bonaparte

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

To persons uninstructed in natural history, their country or seaside stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces – in nature, in society, in man himself.

He who does not understand history is doomed to repeat it.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

How incredible our ancestors were. The first astrophysicists, scientists, physicians, mathematicians, architects, creators of so much of the world as we know it. It’s a blessing to know what cloth you’re cut from!

We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Kings are the slaves of history.

Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.