古人云：前事不忘，后世之师；历史就是一面镜子，通过这面镜子你可以发现很多有规律的事情，不管是国内还是国外都拿历史来借鉴，下面我收集了一些有关历史的英文名人名言。
1.History is the essence of innumerable biographies.-Thomas Carlyle : Essay on History
2.No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.-Carlyle : Heroes and Hero-Worship
3.History is philosophy teaching by examples.-Dionysius
4.The history of the great events of this world is scarcely more than the history of crimes.-Voltaire
5.History -- which is, indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.-Edward Gibbon
6.There is properly no history : only biography.-(Emerson
7.We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.-George Bernard Shaw
8.After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident or incident, you begin to wonder about history.-Anonymous
9.Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.-Robert Kennedy
10.A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.-Mahatma Gandhi
11.History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.-Napoleon Bonaparte
12.Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.-George Washington
13.That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.-Aldous Huxley
14.Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.-John Adams
15.The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.-Mark Twain