6 Donald Kagan Quotes for You to Enjoy

Donald Kagan

American Historian

Born: 1932

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

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Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction. Donald Kagan

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I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a different place or a different time: What's the same and what's different? Donald Kagan

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

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You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live. Donald Kagan

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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable meaning of the concept empire, especially the comparison with the Roman Empire. Donald Kagan

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