History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

It only needed two or three such defeats in succession for the backbone of a country to be put out of joint forever and for a thousand-year-old nation to be utterly destroyed.

History! Read it and weep!

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

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history.

Preserve your history and become everlasting; receive new life from the times that have gone by.

Historical experience is written in blood and iron.

The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.