History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
~Alexis de Tocqueville
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time, it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance, in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
~Cicero
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler.
~Henry Glassie