Historians Argue

Famous quotes containing the words historians and/or argue:

“Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.”
—Eric J. Hobsbawm (b. 1917)

“When you argue with your inferiors,
you convince them of only one thing:
they are as clever as you.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)