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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.

Lewis Namier

Lewis Namier

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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