“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.” — John F. Kennedy¹

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” — Winston Churchill¹

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” — Maya Angelou¹

“The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.” — Stephen Ambrose

“History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in the heart our own.” — Julius Lester

“The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.” — Hendrik Willem van Loon

“In the end, history is about people. It’s about what we do together and what drives us apart. It’s about struggle.” — Jill Lepore

“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

“The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.” — Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” — Mark Twain

“I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” — Abraham Lincoln

“History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

“We are not makers of history. We are made by history.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“A generation which ignores history has no past – and no future.” — Robert A. Heinlein

“Our history is not our destiny.” — Alan Cohen