Geschichte lebt nicht, wenn man ihr keine Heimat im Bewusstsein gibt; sie ist eine Last, die kein freier Mensch zu tragen gezwungen werden kann.

Nah, ketahuilah mengenai hal ini. Aku akan melakukan kerjasama sekalipun dengan setan yang terkutuk, jika hal itu membantu kemerdekaan negeriku.

The history of your world is filled with the voice of the victor, the voice of power, although it was not always a voice of sanity, by any means.

With the development of the printing press, not only could text be mass-produced quickly, it could also be mass-produced quickly and incorrectly.

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.

Archive material is a fabulous starting point - individual documents are like signposted roads, heading to a variety of intriguing possibilities.

Of all the studies by which men acquire citizenship of the intellectual commonwealth, no single one is so indispensable as the study of the past.

Aku bertanya kepada Saudara-Saudara semua: Siapakah yang dapat membelenggu suatu bangsa jikalau semangat bangsa itu sendiri tidak mau dibelenggu?

Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.

Peter Aykroyd has a wonderful eye for the telling detail, cameos that stick in the mind. Thse are the little touches that make it past come alive.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

An important part of deciding where we want to go, as a society and culture, is knowing where we have come from, and indeed, how far we have come.