"Our history is not our destiny"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"Anatomy is destiny"

"History takes time. History makes memory"

"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it"