Argument Quote by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

History is an argument without end.

— Pieter Geyl

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

— Andrew Marr

“History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and the present,…

— John H. Arnold

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

— Jean Cocteau

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

— Jill Lepore

Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.

— Lewis H. Lapham

They say that 'history is an argument without end.' In Thompson's skillful hands, this momentous argument between two old friends on the most critical…

— Jonathan Alter

Every work of history is a combination of argument and narrative. The longer I write, the more I emphasize the narrative, the story, and…

— H. W. Brands

History only exists, in the final analysis, for God.

— Albert Camus

History is not history unless it is the truth.

— Abraham Lincoln

At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.

— E. P. Thompson

The "end of history" has been proclaimed many times, always falsely.

— Noam Chomsky