Famous quotes containing the words trumpet and/or history:
“For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?”
—Bible: New Testament 1 Corinthians 14:8.
“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)