Antony Beevor Quotes

The study of history is in the truest sense an education, and a training for political life.

It’s the private sector that produces the jobs, but the private sector needs roads and an educated workforce.

The good historian is not for any time or any country: while he loves his fatherland, he never flatters it in anything.

History courses made up of all facts and no interpretation are guaranteed to put kids to sleep…. History comes alive when viewed as a patterned story open to ongoing debate.

We are raising students in America who are, by and large, historically illiterate.

History makes one wise, but not competent to solve concrete problems.

The private sector is recognized as the creator of social wealth.

Most inhabitants of these post-Soviet states also resent that people in the West consider their outlook backward and reactionary.

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

We need to grow the private sector in every corner of New Mexico.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

I don't think enough journalists read enough - literature, history. You've got to keep reading all through your career.

We need all the transportation options that we can get in Virginia - especially options where the private sector carries all the risk and all the cost.

At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

A big part of our agenda is to position the United States for long-term sustainable growth and health, and those jobs come from the private sector.

Some people don't support economic development. There are people in the Assembly who say there is no economic development possible; leave it to the private sector.

To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector.

Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.

Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.

Too many people take New York for granted. The primary reason is that history is not taught. That's outrageous in a city where the past is still visible.

I think a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it's about becoming a critical thinker. And I think that critical thinking is so integral to being an actor.

Having spent years in academia - at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Oxford University and Harvard Law School - I encountered a wide range of worldviews.

I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in teaching history that went beyond memorizing dates and battles and all of that - basically, looking at the life of individuals throughout history, aided by fascinating primary sources.

Public television is a very important thing for our human race, and it allows us the ability to discuss the elephants in the room and understand stories beyond the headlines.