Allan Nevins Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.”
-- Allan Nevins

#Army
“History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.”
-- Allan Nevins

#Wind #History #Confusion
“If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.”
-- Allan Nevins

#Art #Past #Ideas

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