Donald Kagan

In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology…

— Donald Kagan

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody at a…

— Donald Kagan

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

— Donald Kagan

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion…

— Donald Kagan

War has been more common than peace, and extended periods of peace have been rare in a world divided into multiple states

— Donald Kagan

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some…

— Donald Kagan

I can see that you [Bruce Cole] are a true historian because you really always ought to ask that question about anybody…

— Donald Kagan

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

— Donald Kagan

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I had a choice. I read a lot…

— Donald Kagan

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of…

— Donald Kagan

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

— Donald Kagan