Whistle/history

Famous quotes containing the words whistle and/or history:

    Slavery is no scholar, no improver; it does not love the whistle of the railroad; it does not love the newspaper, the mail-bag, a college, a book or a preacher who has the absurd whim of saying what he thinks; it does not increase the white population; it does not improve the soil; everything goes to decay.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)