Good History Quotes
Good History Quote of the day
The Gospel is ‘Good News’, not ‘Good History’, because when it’s preached, it happens.
If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.
History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write good history.
The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.
A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a country through its actions.
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.
Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.
I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.
Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.
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.