#history

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#warfare #age

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. ↗

— Charles Sumner

#afflicted #been #beginning #compromise #country

The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#avenue #collect #collected #effort #fifth

All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine. ↗

— John Baldacci

#better #experience #going #here #history

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#people #them #trapped

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. ↗

— Jefferson Davis

#current events #did #events #ever #history

I think of the view from a favorite arroyo in the late afternoon, the east slope still bathed in sunlight, the far slope already full of dark shade and lengthening shadows. A cool breeze, as one can look across the plains, out over miles of homes and trees, and hear the faraway hum of traffic on the high-ways and see the golden light filtering through the mist-laden air. ↗

— Carey McWilliams

#home

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. ↗

— Max Eastman

#history #joke #next #poet #room

I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone. ↗

— Enya

#every #gone #history #i #know

The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad. ↗

— Pringle Kennedy

#amazing #atheist #christian #culture #direction