Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Quentin Skinner

Born: November 26, 1940 (age 84)
Bio: Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner is the Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary University of London and an intellectual historian.
Known for:
- Visions of Politics (2002)
- The Foundations of Modern Political Thought (1978)
- Liberty before liberalism (1988)
- Hobbes and Republican Liberty (2008)
- Machiavelli (1981)