Townsend/history

Famous quotes containing the words townsend and/or history:

“Dizzily down the abyss he wheels—
So fell Darius. Upon his crown,
In the midst of the barn-yard he came down,
In a wonderful whirl of tangled strings,
Broken braces and broken springs,
Broken tail and broken wings,”
—John Townsend Trowbridge (1827–1916)

“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)