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No number of atrocities however horrible can deprive a nation of its right to independence, nor justify its being put under the heel of its worst enemies and persecutors.
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What matters most about political ideas is the underlying emotions, the music, to which ideas are a mere libretto, often of very inferior quality.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
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Lewis Namier
Born:
June 27, 1888
Died:
August 19, 1960
(aged 72)
Bio:
Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was a British historian of Polish-Jewish background.
Known for:
1848: the revolution of the intellectuals (1944)
Vanished Supremacies (1958)
Skyscrapers, and other essays (1931)
Personalities and Powers (1955)
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