Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or commonwealth:
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own....”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)