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The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke.

The real war will never get in the books.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.