Quotes about history...

A country without a memory is a country of madmen.
--George Santayana

History teaches everything including the future.
--Lamartine

Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth.
--Cicero

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.
--Mark Twain

History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken.
--Stephen Daedalus (created by James Joyce)