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I am really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

You are going to relegate my history to a month.

But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I am very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

I do not have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I am left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

It is in the history books, the Holocaust. It is just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.

If history is a guide, a victory for Obama means he faces the prospect of a second term dogged by scandal or inertia.

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he is extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just Does not seem comfortable in his skin.

I normally ignore the History Channel.

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can not construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

Texas was such a welcoming place, and with its unbelievable history and tradition, it is extra special to be a part of that.