The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
This is a fabulous part of world history that most people don't understand.
And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.