Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, spain and/or war:
“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“These anyway might think it was important
That human history should not be shortened.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this private sea; but no bark from them has ventured out of sight of land, though it is without doubt the direct way to India.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Surely there is not a capitalist or well-informed person in this world today who believes that [World War I] is being fought to make the world safe for democracy. It is being fought to make the world safe for capital.”
—Rose Porter Stokes (1879–1933)