“If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.”
“If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.”
“If history could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization”
“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.”
“If history teaches us anything at all, it is that sooner or later, wherever you go or whatever you do, the sad, brutal fact remains that you're almost bound to run into somebody or something that really needs killin'.”
“Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by and election, neither can they take by war; teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war.”