Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. George Santayana 7. Charles Caled Colton 8. The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalization of the victors.
History is written by the survivors.
Max Lerner 9. Napoleon Bonaparte 10. The function of 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 11. To observe the past is to take warning for the future.