History.......................

"We don’t know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don’t care. I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today."
-Henry Ford

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” 
-George Orwell

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?'”
-Dan Brown, from The Da Vinci Code

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” 
-Winston Churchill

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
-Aldous Huxley

“There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.” 
-Stephen Colbert

“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.” 
-Bill Watterson

“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ” 
-Michael Crichton

“History is a vast early warning system.” 
-Norman Cousins