Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or empire:
“The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.”
—William Morris Hughes (1864–1952)