history Quotes

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

History is written by the victors.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.