"What is public history but a register of the successes and disappointments, the vices, the follies and the quarrels of those who engage in contention for power"
This quote is written / told by William S. Paley between September 28, 1901 and October 26, 1990. He/she was a famous Businessman from USA.
The author also have 4 other quotes.
"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"
"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"