Uhlan/history/world War I

Famous quotes containing the words history, world and/or war:

    “Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “Either war is obsolete or men are.”
    —R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983)