It never occurred to any Enlightenment figure in the…

Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will…

— Noam Chomsky

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

— David Hare

Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and…

— William McKinley

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot…

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton

“It was in the eighteenth century that England became what (Adam) Smith called "a nation of shopkeepers"… (p. 58)”

— Jerry Z. Muller

“It would be the twentieth century before the opening of the British Headquarters Papers at the University of Michigan proved what the eighteenth century…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“Landscape design theory has been rotting away, peacefully, like a garden temple, since the close of the eighteenth century.”

— Tom Turner

“Compare, for example, seventeenth century writers with those of the eighteenth. What a difference in tone and gait! The former, under a veneer of…

— Edouard Berth

The liberal tradition has its roots in the Enlightenment, that period in the eighteenth-century Europe when intellectuals and political leaders had a powerful sense…

— John Mearsheimer

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

— Ralph Adams Cram

“The way we define opera circa 1700 may help us to throw light not just on the choices facing Bach and his brilliant peer…

— John Eliot Gardiner

“The house had a name and a history; the old gentleman taking his tea would have been delighted to tell you these things: how…

— Henry James

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

— Frank Crowninshield