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.
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)