Investment/history

Famous quotes containing the words investment and/or history:

“The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)