Fueled/history

Famous quotes containing the words fueled and/or history:

“The “real movement” of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.”
—Gertrude Himmelfarb (b. 1922)

“Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)