(noun) The aggregate of past events. Example: "History repeats itself if we don’t learn from its mistakes."
"Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart."
"As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill."
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
"People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them."
"History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about."
"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
"Victory without any struggle is just a victory. But a victory that overcomes a lot of trouble, becomes history."
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."
"What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?"
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme."
"I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all."