Abram L. Sachar Quotes

In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.

- John Thorn

Historian

• Baseball
• Team

Men seldom take the opinion of their equal, or of a man like themselves, upon trust.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

Historian

· France

• Equal
• Opinion

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

- Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

Historian

· France

• Human
• Subjects

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

- Sallust

Historian

· Italy

• Action
• Advice

At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.

- David Lavender

Historian

• Awakening
• Country
• Dawn

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

- Will Durant

Historian

· USA

• Dictatorship
• Liberty

If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

- Ronald Wright

Historian

· Canada

• Civilization
• Interest
• Nature

At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.

- John H. Vincent

Historian

• Accounts
• Debt
• Justice

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

- Barbara Tuchman

Historian

· USA

• Comfort
• Military
• Mind

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

- Theodore Zeldin

Historian

· United Kingdom

• Anniversary
• Great Things