History
This safe Conservative seat was represented for its entire existence by Andrew MacKay.
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Famous quotes containing the word history:
“There is no history of how bad became better.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are two great unknown forces to-day, electricity and woman, but men can reckon much better on electricity than they can on woman.”
—Josephine K. Henry, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 15, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”
—G.M. (George Macaulay)