Quotes about History
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
by Wendell Berry (born in 1934) keywords: am, come, forethought, free, grace, grief, into, lives, peace, rest, tax, their, things, time, wild , world History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
by Ambrose Bierce (born in 1842) keywords: account, brought, events, false, fools, history, knaves, mostly, rulers, soldiers, unimportant , which An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.
by Augustine Birrell (born in 1850) keywords: books, happy, himself, least, man, ordinary, place, possible, surround, thousand, two, which , world Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world.
by Augustine Birrell (born in 1850) keywords: any, books, course, five, forward, given, haste, himself, his, language, least, man, ordinary, own, place, pounds, pressure, putting, surround, taste, thence, undue, upon, without, world , years In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly.
by Hugo Black (born in 1886) keywords: clearly, commended, condemnation, courageous, deserving, far, fathers, founding, new, newspapers, other, post, purpose, reporting, saw, serving, should, their, times, view, washington , york We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.
by Tony Blair (born in 1953) keywords: american, britain, driven, evil, friends, here, hour, our, rest, shoulder, stand, them, therefore, tragedy, until, will , world Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
by Louis D. Brandeis (born in 1856) keywords: alone, assembly, bondage, burnt, cannot, fear, feared, fears, free, function, injury, irrational, justify, men, oppression, serious, speech, witches , women Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
by Louis D. Brandeis (born in 1856) keywords: been, before, declared, doing, done, had, impossible, most, things, were, world , worth
