History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

- Hilary Mantel

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

- Frank Waters

Google is my best friend and my worst enemy. It's fabulous for research, but then it becomes addictive. I'll have a character eating an orange, and next thing I'm Googling types of oranges, I'm visiting chat rooms about oranges, I'm learning the history of the orange.

- Liane Moriarty

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

- Wilfred Owen

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

- Dick Gregory

The hallmark of our times is change and acceleration, but we have to provide the history.

- Jim Leach

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.

- Ken Follett

There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.

- Andy Grove

France is delighted at this new opportunity to show the world that when one has the will one can succeed in joining peoples who have been brought close by history.

- Francois Mitterrand

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

- Leo Tolstoy