quick question

[IAmLeviathan]

hi - just a quick question to settle an argument (i fugured this would eb aas good a place as any to ask this), who is the quote "history is written by the winners" generally attributed to? i say either Marx or Neitzsche, but i could be wrong on both counts?...

thanks :)

[lvleph]

It appears that the original quote came from Alex Haley. source (http://www.quotegarden.com/history.html)

EDIT: But that is too recent, so I searched more and found another discussion (http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=101;t=000374;p=1) on this very topic.