Famous quotes containing the words history, independence, civil and/or war:
“A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)
“To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.”
—Joseph Ratzinger (b. 1927)
“Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)