Best 4 quotes of Oscar Handlin on MyQuotes

In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

Poverty was a dog whose teeth sank deep.

The historian, predisposed to verbal evidence, who reads about rather than looks at objects, becomes dependent upon secondhand impressions and is helpless when critics disagree or interpose their own extraneous judgments between the work and the viewer.