Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, tax, resistance and/or examples:
“The history of a soldier’s wound beguiles the pain of it.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.”
—Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1965)
“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)