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Post by Saltin on Sept 17, 2017 6:47:49 GMT
In this thread you can post any of your favorite quotes on either the definition of what history is or a saying on its effect on humanity. Feel free to comment on other people quotations if you want but try to include your own favorites too. I will start:
”The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present." E. H. Carr
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Post by stoic on Sept 18, 2017 5:25:35 GMT
Whether, now, these things should be set down to greatness of spirit or littleness of mind, is an open question.
Plutarch
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Post by stoic on Sept 18, 2017 6:36:34 GMT
My predecessors have not been sparing in this respect. They have all begun and ended, so to speak, by enlarging on this theme: asserting again and again that the study of History is in the truest sense an education, and a training for political life; and that the most instructive, or rather the only, method of learning to bear with dignity the vicissitudes of fortune is to recall the catastrophes of others.
Polybius
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Post by Conrad von Hotzendorf on Sept 18, 2017 7:33:32 GMT
"If it wasn't for those damn Yanks, we could have kept the war going another 10 years!"
Mad Jack Churchill
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Post by Singlemalt on Sept 19, 2017 16:12:03 GMT
'Dulce bellum inexpertis.'
Erasmus
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Post by Mountbatten on Sept 19, 2017 19:15:46 GMT
Dab on them fools.
-Cam Newton's brother
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Post by NetherFreek on Sept 19, 2017 20:41:56 GMT
Si vis pacem, para bellum.
Even though it's 2000 years old it's still 'proven' to be true even nowadays.
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Post by The Light Bringer on Sept 19, 2017 21:02:24 GMT
Si vis pacem, para bellum. Even though it's 2000 years old it's still 'proven' to be true even nowadays. Definitely one of my favorite quotes |
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Post by Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb on Sept 19, 2017 21:11:35 GMT
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Post by The Light Bringer on Sept 19, 2017 21:25:55 GMT
Alea iacta est
Gaius Julius Caesar
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Post by Leonid Govorov on Sept 20, 2017 6:35:49 GMT
There are no desperate situations, only desperate people
-Heinz W. Guderian
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Post by lassalle on Sept 30, 2017 15:26:47 GMT
" History is a set of lies agreed upon"
Usually been credited to Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)—“La vérité historique est souvent une fable convenue.
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Post by Saltin on Oct 1, 2017 6:39:21 GMT
"History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are, but more importantly, what they must be."
John Henrik Clarke
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Post by Gaius Julius Caesar on Oct 1, 2017 17:13:13 GMT
Alea iacta est Gaius Julius Caesar Can't get much better than a quote like that! |
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Post by Gaius Julius Caesar on Oct 1, 2017 17:16:25 GMT
"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." ~George S. Patton
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