Enjoyable Quote by Douglas Hurd

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of…

— David McCullough

“To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of…

— Dacid McCullough

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of…

— Vincent Massey

Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.

— Douglas Hurd

If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance.

— Herbert Butterfield

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

“History isn’t just something that ought to be taught, read, or encouraged only because it will make us better citizens. It will make us…

— David McCullough

History is what we read, write and think about the past.

— Michael Howard

History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.

— Roger Rees

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

— Agnes Repplier

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

— Ken Burns

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

— Jane Austen