Top 10 History Quotes

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now no more than family estates of the Buonapartes.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.