Warren Christopher Quotes

History justifies whatever we want it to. It teaches absolutely nothing, for it contains everything and gives examples of everything.

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.

An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

So often when we historicize material, we use this big wide-angle lens.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

I think you can learn from history.

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Even historians with knowledge of the event, and with the materials before them on which to form a judgment, see but little way into the causes and consequences of the great events in human history.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product.

One test of a great work of history is does it make you feel like you have lived through the period

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.

I write to learn the flow of history.

I love and I'm intrigued by what history does to people and to subjects that matter.

The way we make history exciting to learn about is by breaking down the barriers that are already set up between these people.

We learn from history. That's what it's all about.

We knew in our gut that History needed to be more than a timeline.

Only by painting the great panorama of history, can the great history-reading public be entertained or satisfied.

Our interest in history always reflects our own times.

The beauty about history is that it's open to perception.