Essex/history

Famous quotes containing the words essex and/or history:

    “The unknown always seems unbelievable, Lucas.”
    —Harry Essex (b. 1910)

    “The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are living.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)