Robert E. Howard on history

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

A wolf was no less a wolf because a whim of chance caused him to run with the watch-dogs.

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

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