Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

很少有事情是在正确的时间发生的，其余的事情根本就没有发生。有良心的历史学家会改正这些缺点。

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

我们不仅在新的殖民前哨而且在国内被铲除，成为无助的奴隶，难道历史上的惩罚和苦难还不够吗?

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.

如果你想看历史频道的文字和历史完美。

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

我们都有痛苦的过去，我们必须度过。

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

使我们明智的不是回忆过去，而是对未来的责任。

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

我们不是历史的创造者。历史造就了我们。

We are set to make very bad history.

我们注定要创造非常糟糕的历史。

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

我们仍然生活在广岛的余震中，人民仍然是历史的伤疤。

We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?

我们是历史上唯一被留下来独自战斗的阶级，没有统治力量的帮助。白人劳工和自由的黑人有他们的拥护者，但是我们的呢?

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

我们需要的是完整的历史，而不是退回到历史中去，而是看看我们是否能逃离历史。

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

我们没有侵略任何人。我们没有征服任何人。我们没有攫取他们的土地，他们的文化，他们的历史，并试图把我们的生活方式强加给他们。

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

我们的历史和地位都不允许侵略;我们有一切可以召唤我们与所有国家建立和平与友好的关系。

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

我们有能力使这一代人成为世界历史上最优秀的一代，或者使他们成为最后一代。

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

我们从历史中学到，我们从历史中学不到任何东西。

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

我们生活在这样一个历史时刻，变化如此之快，以至于我们只有在现在已经消失的时候才开始看到现在。