Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelThe man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
James Henry BreastedThe subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelBut every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
Martin HeideggerEvery library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.