Author: Donald Kagan

Quotes

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot of things, but history had a special appeal for me.

- Donald Kagan

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

- Donald Kagan

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

- Donald Kagan

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

- Donald Kagan

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