Are people in other countries ever taught quotes from American history? We learn quotes from other countries' histories. For instance, "Veni, vidi, vici", from Caesar and "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few", from Churchill.
Post nice quotes from your country.
"The wolf always looks towards the forest"
why would you be "taught quotes"
Je pense, donc, je suis.
I think, therefore, I am.
*taught about
**learn about
This must be the most famous quote
"Mos shikoni kisha e xhamia
Feja e Shqiptarit a Shqiptaria"
>comfy flag
>comfy quotes
is Estonia a comfy country?
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
People wrongfully attribute this to Michael Jordan sometimes
Keep licking his ass and he might tell you
fuck off
no need to be rude
oh
"The post of Vice-President isn't worth a bucket of warm piss"
.....Now i've become death, the destroyer of humanity
Still sends shivers down my spine.
"For as long as one hundred of us shall remain alive, we shall never in any wise consent submit to the rule of the English, for it is not for glory we fight, nor riches, or for honour, but for freedom alone, which no good man loses but with his life."
I came a little
and ended up doing absolutely nuthin
>quotes from American history
As far as I remember, the paragraphs about American history were always in the end of the section together with Asia and Africa and we never had time for this at classes and the teacher asked us to read it on vacations.
No one read it obviously.
"What are ya, blind, cunt?"
-Fred Hollows
>For score and seven years ago...
comes to mind
we read the speech in English class
on the whole English class focused a lot more on the UK than America though
most well known quote from Icelandic history is
>Vér mótmælum allir! ([So] we all protest!)
originally said by the leader of the independence movement to Count Trampe then governor of Iceland over his poor performance but soon became a rallying cry against Danish rule
other good ones
>Eigi skal höggva! (Please do not chop!)
last words of one of Snorri Sturluson one of the greatest medieval historians of Europe
>Höggva mann og annan (Chop a man and a second one)
last line of a poem supposedly written by then 3 year old viking Egill Skallagrímsson
>Eigi skal gráta Björn bónda, heldur safna liði og leita hefnda (Do not cry for Björn the farmer but gather forces and seek revenge)
a rich farmer was killed by some Englishmen and his wife went berserk
>Þau tíðkast hin breiðu spjótin (The wide spears are in fashion)
last words by a guy stabbed with a wide spear
funnily enough we spent way more time on Russian history than American history
That's because Russians have history
Most of the literature we get is Dutch. With English, German and French literature being treated somewhat equally. But if you want some Dutch quotes:
"The atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki have presumably prevented world war three thus-far."
Okay, technically this guy is a Swiss citizen. But he devoted his entire life to serving Russia.. even in exile after Russia has ceased to be:
"I believe, that with the destruction of every Bolshevik, humanity goes forward on the path of progress. I hope that other brave souls will follow my example, thus demonstrating the greatness of their feelings!"
He killed a judeobolshevik "diplomat" in Switzerland and was ruled not guilty by the Swiss court, his crime was justified by the atrocities he, his family and his country has gone through because of the bolshevik scum.
"A marriage that is no longer a marriage should be able to get annulled, precisely for the sake of the sanctity of marriage."
Ask not what your cunt can do for you, ask what you can do for your cunt
BASED
4Lenin hadn't choice there. Of course what happened further should never be repeted in human history.
Here's a nice pic displaying that
Do foreigners know of "Give me Liberty or give me death" or the Gettysburg Address?
Technically he's the only person allowed to be in both the Executive and Legislative Branch here, but in both those branches he mostly plays a ceremonial role, so the quote's not wrong.