History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.