"There are obvious parallels between human life cycles and those of ruling groups."

"For what has been said is just repetition, what has been said has been said."

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is…"

"What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or…"

"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are many copies and few originals."

"History, we know, is apt to repeat herself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of cost…"

"Herman Melville, in his poetry, "declare[d a] belief... that all history is mere iteration ('Age after age shall be/A…"

"History never repeats itself, but the Kaleidoscopic combinations of the pictured present often seem to be constructed…"

"History exhibits truths... when [the facts] are seen not merely as they follow, but as they correspond... as they are…"

"Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again."