Irish Historian

Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or historian:

“I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We rail at trade, but the historian of the world will see that it was the principle of liberty; that it settled America, and destroyed feudalism, and made peace and keeps peace; that it will abolish slavery.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)