Jerusalem/history

Famous quotes containing the words jerusalem and/or history:

“And was Jerusalem builded here,
Among these dark Satanic Mills?”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“We aspire to be something more than stupid and timid chattels, pretending to read history and our Bibles, but desecrating every house and every day we breathe in.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)