Allan Nevins quotes
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“History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.”
-- Allan NevinsSource : Allan Nevins (1962). “The Gateway to History”
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“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 NevinsSource : Allan Nevins (1962). “The Gateway to History”
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“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 NevinsSource : Allan Nevins (1975). “Allan Nevins on history”
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“It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.”
Source : Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation
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Source : "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.
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