"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering." Theodore Roosevelt

"If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us." Anonymous

"It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts." Bill Vaughan, journalist (1915-1977)

"Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." George Orwell, 1984

"History is a vast early warning system." Norman Cousins, editor and author (1915-1990)

“Anyone can look for history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store.” Robert Wieder

"The anthropologist is an art historian. Humanity's footprints were left by the creators not by the bureaucrats. In looking at history, we are looking at art. To understand a culture we look at what they created." Ruth Vaughan

"History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion." George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Reason in Science, 1918