Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Maurice Cowling

Born: September 6, 1926
Died: August 24, 2005 (aged 78)
Bio: Maurice John Cowling was a British historian and a Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Known for:
- The Impact of Hitler (1975)
- Mill and liberalism (1963)
- The Nature and Limits of Political Science (1963)
- 1867 Disraeli, Gladstone and Revolution (1967)