Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
History is written by those who win and those who dominate.
History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.
The histories of mankind that we possess are histories only of the higher class.
History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.
One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.
History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.
The lessons of history are taught by the victors.
It is the winners who write history - their way.
History is not just written by the winners; it's written about them.
Nobody gives a damn about the Merrimac. You know how it is. Winners write the history books.
Winners write the history.
