History of Switzerland/napoleonic Era 1798%e2%80%931848

Famous quotes containing the words history, switzerland and/or era:

    “We said that the history of mankind depicts man; in the same way one can maintain that the history of science is science itself.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
    —Orson Welles (1915–84)

    “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)