"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." ---------Edmund Burke
"Whoever wishes to foresee the future mustconsult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results."
-------Niccolo Machiavelli
"History is not melodrama, even if it usually reads like that."
------Robert Penn Warren
"This I regard as history"s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds."
