Similar quotesHistory is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon 
Ideas shape the course of history.
John Maynard Keynes 
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.
Henry Ford 
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill 
The History of human calumny is largely a series of breaches of good manners.
Tom Stoppard 