Settle/history

Famous quotes containing the words settle and/or history:

“I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)