Matt Bevin Quotes

Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

I think that America has an obsession with history, really.

The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

Most of us get our history through story.

I don't think you should ever run from history. You should learn from it and embrace it.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.

With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick.

Never, ever forget history.

There are moments in history that people should be reminded of.

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

I really feel sorry for kids who aren't interested in history - recent history, either, because it is this that made us what we are.

Perhaps the most important lesson of the New Social Historians is that history belongs to those about whom or whose documents survive.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Checkpoint Charlie.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

It may not be art, but it is history.

Making history whole is about uncovering secrets.

What history is about is human beings.

Writing history is writing the soul of the past...

Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

You can’t just wave a magic wand and make our history go away..

There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence of it.