Following is our list of the best Allan Nevins quotes and sayings.
- Born
- May 20, 1890
- Died
- March 5, 1971
- Known as
- American Historian
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If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all works of art, it fails of the highest truth unless imagination and ideas are mixed with the paints.
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History is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position.
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History is never above the melee. It is not allowed to be neutral, but forced to enlist in every army.