Famous quotes containing the words sharp and/or history:
“Freedom is like a man who kills himself
Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife
Grows sharp in blood.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpations ... all of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)