There is no nation in the history that has not experienced bloodshed and murdering. We all have committed the same mistakes in a different manner.

Gotob royong adalah pembantingan tulang bersama, pemerasan keringat bersama, perjuangan bantu-membantu bersama. Amal semua buat kepentingan semua.

Grandmother's knee is a wonderful place to learn about the Bible, ghosts, and even Santa Claus, but a mighty poor place to learn about history.

Not everybody can let himself drift along the flow of history. Some of us have to stop to pick up what’s washed up on the banks of the river.

The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.

Telah terbukti dalam sejarah keagamaan dan politik, bahwa usaha untuk menindas seorang pemimpin, akan membuat namanya semakin hidup di hati rakyat.

Seorang pemimpin tidak berubah karena hukuman. Aku masuk penjara untuk memperjuangkan kemerdekaan, dan aku meninggalkannya dengan tujuan yang sama.

Kekejaman terburuk yang dapat menghancurkan nilai-nilai kemanusiaan adalah pengasingan. Dia dapat memutarbalikkan dan membelokkan kehidupan manusia.

Geschichte treiben heißt Brücken zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart schlagen und beide Ufer beobachten und an beiden tätig werden.

[A]s Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography, wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.

History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.

I think it's outrageous if a historian has a 'leading thought' because it means they will select their material according to their thesis

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped, inner city machiya.