“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”

“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”

“Everybody allows that to know any other science you must have first studied it, and that you can only claim to express a judgment upon it in virtue of such knowledge. Everybody allows that to make a shoe you must have learned and practised the craft of the shoemaker, though every man has a model in his own foot, and possesses in his hands the natural endowments for the operations required. For philosophy alone, it seems to be imagined, such study, care, and application are not in the least requisite”

“World history is a court of judgment”

“History in general is therefore the development of Spirit in Time, as Nature is the development of the Idea is Space.”

“America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.”

“What we learn from history is that we do not learn from history”