Legend remains victorious in spite of history.
History is written by the victors.
The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.
I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
History is written by the victors. The victors in daily life tend to be those who live longest.
Reducing everything immediately to good and evil is bad history - not only because it isn't true, but because reductionism is unpersuasive; it is boring. Good history, on the other hand, demands that one talk socratically - that one can present alternate viewpoints, not strawman arguments.
When one nation is at war with another nation, the political machine does everything it can to vilify the people of the other nation, so it makes it easier to kill them. Which is understandable and it's happened this way throughout history.
This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.
Our relations - the United States and Canada, that trade relationship is vitally important. There's a long history.
When I ran for governor, I talked about the disenfranchisement of voters. I talked about the history that we've had. We've had a horrible history here in Virginia going back to 1901 - the poll tax, literacy tests, disenfranchisement of felons. We're one of the worst four states in America on allowing people back in with voting rights.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.
When I turned 30, due to my father's heart history and my family genetics, I vowed to start seeing a cardiologist every year and just really be proactive and take my own heart health into my own hands.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
How could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
Do you seriously expect me to be the first Prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress?
I love the Warner Brothers lot. There is so much history there. They've done such a smart thing. They have signs outside of each stage which tell you what movies and TV shows were shot inside. So cool... you can almost feel the ghosts of actors past.
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
