#history

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#fingers #hand #his #history #out

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#apart #estates #few #history #landscapes

Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#feeling #filled #helplessness #history #national

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it. ↗

— Rick Warren

#culture #history #shows #weakens

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. ↗

— George Washington

#all nations #cultivate #faith #good #good faith

What has made America amazing has been the fact that throughout our history, throughout the more than 200 years of our history, there have been men and women of courage who stood up and decided it was more important to look out for the future of their children and their grandchildren than their own political futures. ↗

— Scott Walker

#america #been #children #courage #decided

I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term. ↗

— Scott Walker

#first #governor #his #history #i

Let this be our time in history so that someday we can tell our children and grandchildren that we were there, that we changed the course of history for the better. ↗

— Scott Walker

#changed #children #course #grandchildren #history

Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans. ↗

— Scott Walker

#because #confidence #did #extraordinary #forward

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#adapted #been #consider #custom #fixed