history Quotes

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.