Zbigniew Brzezinski on history

To put it very simply, anyone can become an American, but only a Chinese can be Chinese⁠—and that places an additional and significant barrier in the way of any essentially national global hegemony.

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.

Adolf Hitler1889–1945

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Harry S. Truman1884–1972