• History is not history unless it is the truth.

Abraham Lincoln in a letter to W.H. Herndon, 1856

• To be ignorant of the past is to remain a child.

paraphrase from an observation by Cicero

• We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

Hegel

• There is no present or future, only the past happening over and over again – now. 

Eugene O’Neill

• Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

George Santayana

• “History is a conversation with the dead.”  Keith Hopkins