Sat/history

Famous quotes containing the words sat and/or history:

“You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
—Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)