Modern Era

Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or era:

“The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

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