Famous quotes containing the words history, democratic, republic and/or wars:
“All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed and suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)
“America is addicted to wars of distraction.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)