Famous quotes containing the words relations, history and/or presidency:
“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasurethe relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.... It is not history which uses men as a means of achievingas if it were an individual personits own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.”
—Karl Marx (18181883)
“... how often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that he should drop into unmerited oblivion when he has left the White House ...”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (18261903)