History Quote by Archibald Henry Grimke

“He must needs stand erect, inflexible, uncompromising, an image of Puritan intolerance and Puritan grandeur. Against his granite-like character and convictions the insolence of…

— Archibald Henry Grimke

“He was a man’s man, despite his vocation; after all, he studied American history. A litany of red-blooded patriots, fighting savages and redcoats alike,…

— Jordan L. Hawk

“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life…

— Henry James

“It was not his nature to believe that he should engage in any kind of meddling or become actively involved in politics. His vocation…

— Carola Giedion-Welcker

“The period of which I write was an overshadowed one in British history, and especially in the history of the northern provinces. War was…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Thomas Cromwell is now about fifty years old. He has a labourer's body, stocky, useful, running to fat. He has black hair, greying now,…

— Hilary Mantel

“The opposition which had driven him from Northampton followed him to Stockbridge. For several years a persistent effort was made to obstruct his work,…

— Jonathan Edwards

“He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was…

— James T. Farrell

“Instead he felt only love. And that was the miracle. The surge in hatred since the war began had created more love around it.…

— Kathy Hepinstall

“The war had left his body pathetically damaged and weak, but his mind was as strong and clear as it had ever been, perhaps…

— Dean Koontz

“It was no longer a question of the Union as it was , that was to be reestablished; it was the Union as it…

— Régis de Trobriand

“In running over the pages of our history for seven hundred years, we shall scarcely find a single great event which has not promoted…

— Alexis de Tocqueville