Argument Quote by Pieter Geyl

History is, indeed, an argument without end.

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

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

— Andrew Marr

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

— Jean Cocteau

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

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

— Jill Lepore

“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

History can't be left to fend for itself. For when it comes to history and beliefs and values, we turn our future on the…

— Max De Pree

History is history.

— Troy Vincent

History is not history unless it is the truth.

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Noam Chomsky