National Historic Landmarks

Famous quotes containing the words national, historic and/or landmarks:

    “The principle of all sovereignty resides essentially in the nation.”
    —French National Assembly. Declaration of the Rights of Man (Sept. 1791)

    “The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces—in nature, in society, in man himself.”
    —Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)

    “The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings—crowded, active, thick.... But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow’s horizons are vague and its demands are few.”
    —Larry McMurtry (b. 1936)