Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or canada:
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)
“Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante’s scheme, Limbo is to Hell.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)