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Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes it is based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal.

I do not think that there is been one example in history where somebody has openly talked about their personal life and it is done them any good.

Governments that use violence to stop democratic development will not earn themselves respite forever. They will pay an increasingly high price for actions which they can no longer hide from the world with ease, and will find themselves on the wrong side of history.

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes.

Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it is always had a lot of positivity.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.

I am trying to make a case for those people who do not have a sense of belonging that they should have, that there is something really worthwhile in having a sense of belonging, and recasting and looking at our modern history.

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

There is always a part of your nation's history that you have not been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I am interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I am interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.