Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or grant:
“The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“If you look at the 150 years of modern China’s history since the Opium Wars, then you can’t avoid the conclusion that the last 15 years are the best 15 years in China’s modern history.”
—J. Stapleton Roy (b. 1935)
“I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.”
—Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885)