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We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

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 the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

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

It states, History should be regarded as a means for understanding the past and solving the challenges of the future. It also suggests that this celebration of the end of slavery is an important and enriching part of the history and heritage of the United States.

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

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 with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.