“Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.”  -African proverb

“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”  -poet Maya Angelou 

“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”  -author Pearl S. Buck

“To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.”  -author Mark Twain

“The only thing that mankind had learned from studying history is that mankind has learned nothing from the study of history.”  -Voltaire

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