Arch/history

Famous quotes containing the words arch and/or history:

“Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down by the encroachments of time; but while they loiter, they and their works both fall prey to the arch enemy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)