Famous quotes containing the words history, progress, world and/or war:
“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
“In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go upor else all go downas one people.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (18821945)
“Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born,
With nowhere yet to rest my head,
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
Their faith, my tears, the world deride
I come to shed them at their side.”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)
“Our lives laid down in war and peace may not
Be found acceptable in Heavens sight.
And that they may be is the only prayer
Worth praying. May my sacrifice
Be found acceptable in Heavens sight.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)