#history

История — не пропахший табаком да лавандой бабушкин сундук, а деловой портфель с документами, которые всегда следует держать под рукой, потому что они могут вдруг оказаться востребованными. ↗

— Борис Васильев

#inspirational #inspirational

Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate. ↗

— New York Times April

#history #inspirational #lincoln #motivational #inspirational

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#europe #history #long #mostly #terrorism

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#art #beyond #define #depths #difficult

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#cost #freedom #generation #good #hope

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed. ↗

— George Allen

#apology #failure #formal #heartfelt #history

To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. ↗

— Erich Auerbach

#difficult #forced #historians #history #make

I'm a big stupid history nerd. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#history #i #nerd #stupid

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#debate #divergence #enrich #history #only

The Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have taken the biggest lurch to the left in policy in American history. There've been no - no Congress, no administration that has run this far to the left in such a small period of time. And there is a reaction to that. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#american #american history #been #biggest #congress