Prison/history

Famous quotes containing the words prison and/or history:

“Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment’s comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)