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• But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.
• Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough…
• There are some places where history just grabs you by the jugular. This is one of them.
• From the days of the Founding Fathers, right to this (2008) election, how and where America fights to defend its freedom, has…
• From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of…
• Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.
• The next worse thing to a battle lost is a battle won.
• I'm helplessly and permanently a Red Sox fan. It was like first love...You never forget. It's special. It's the first time I…

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