Famous quotes containing the words historic, flight and/or foundation:
“The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forcesin nature, in society, in man himself.”
—Leon Trotsky (18791940)
“When we are high and airy hundreds say
That if we hold that flight theyll leave the place,
While those same hundreds mock another day
Because we have made our art of common things ...”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“A full belly to the labourer was, in my opinion, the foundation of public morals and the only source of real public peace.”
—William Cobbett (17621835)
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