Here are some insightful quotes about historical events along with their authors:

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“The history of the world is the biography of great men.” — Thomas Carlyle

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.” — H.G. Wells

“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. Kennedy

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

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

“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

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” — Marcus Garvey

“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.” — Michael Crichton

“The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.” — Ernest Dimnet

“History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.” — B. C. Forbes

“If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.” — E. O. Wilson

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