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

Quote by Donald Kagan

Topics: Peace Quotes, War Quotes, World Quotes

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

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

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

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

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire...

All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire...

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

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

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I...

From the time I was a little boy I found myself reading history when I...

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a...

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a...

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from...

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from...

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to...

I can see that you are a true historian because you really always ought to...