Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or rule:
“There are two great unknown forces to-day, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman.”
—Josephine K. Henry, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 15, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)
“My reason, it’s true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn’t rule them so much as tyrannize them.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)