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No generation can escape history.

No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to draw the ignorant within the orbit of reason, and to fill with reverence for divinity the godless and the ungodly.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

No historian should be trusted implicitly.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history--until it degenerates into fables.

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

No one understands that the First Amendment is only important if you are going to offend somebody. If you're not going to offend somebody, you don't need protection of the First Amendment.

No opinion can be trusted; even the facts may be nothing but a printer's error.

No people in the world other than the English would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth.

No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.

Not a stone but has its history.

Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

Nothing capable of being memorized is history.

Nothing falsifies history more than logic.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

... not only dowomen sufferindignities in daily life, but the literature of the world proclaims their inferiority and divinely decreed subjection in all history, sacred and profane, in science, philosophy, poetry, and song.

Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

Novels arise out of the shortcomings of History.

Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.

Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

Now that their long war was over, they could get on with the proper concern of all civilised nations, which is to prepare for the next one.

Now, there are roles which are capturing a vibrant moment in an older woman's life. There was a time when those interesting roles stopped at 28. A few years ago we would have been finished by our age.

Of course, it has never paid much.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Of course Overlord did not fail. How could it? With some many fine young men and women from all corners of the earth all determined to do their best to free a world gone half mad.

Official history is a matter of believing murderers on their own word.

One age is like another for the soul.

Old events have modern meanings; only that survives of past history which finds kindred in all hearts and lives.

Once upon a time, a historian told me that the most important choice a new historian could make was of his or her specialist subject. Most of the good stuff was far too overcrowded, so you had to pick about in the exotic and extinct. His recommendations were the Picts or the Minoans, because hardly anything was known about them and you could spend a happy lifetime of speculation.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

One must overcome history by dogma.

One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.