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

We discussed the history of postwar Japan and how Japan had missed an opportunity to build a more functional democracy because of the focus on fighting communism driven in large part by the American occupation.

The real war will never get in the books.

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

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.

I thought using the Ayatollah’s money to support the Nicaraguan resistance was a neat idea.

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.