The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.
History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.