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.

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

Yes they broke the law but we can't deport them. Let's get over this pointing fingers and do something about that whether it - they have to pay a fine learn to speak English the history you can do that. And then you have to give visas for the skills we need.

We have our own history our own language our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

History is the science of things which are not repeated.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.