War makes good history but peace is poor reading.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

— Ken Burns

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write

— Michel De Montaigne

War makes rattling good history.

— Thomas Hardy

“be a good history lesson”

— a mad man

There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson…

— A. Whitney Brown

Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and…

— Benjamin Franklin

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading

— Thomas Hardy

A good history covers not only what was done, but the thought that went into the action. You can read the history of a…

— Benjamin Hooks

We have good history in Virginia... and we have history that's not good and I don't think we can shy away from any of…

— Ralph Northam

For almost half a century, Fermilab has occupied center stage as physicists have sought to understand the fundamental structure of the universe. The lab…

— James Trefil

It feels good to be a part of history.

— Kevin Durant

The antidote to feel-good history is not feel-bad history but honest and inclusive history.

— James W. Loewen

Diego Tardelli has a very good history with the national team, and left a legacy of his time in Dunga's squad.

— Tite

Good history is good story-telling. And good story-telling demands empathy; it requires understanding different actors, differing motivations, competing goals.

— Ben Sasse

It's always good to be somewhere with some history, maybe that's England, which has a long history.

— Curt Smith