Dungeon/history

Famous quotes containing the words dungeon and/or history:

“We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

“To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)