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.
“Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)