Scarecrow/history

Famous quotes containing the words scarecrow and/or history:

“We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)