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Quotes from Liberty Before Liberalism — Quentin Skinner

born 1940 England

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One of the present values of the past is as a repository of values we no longer endorse, of questions we no longer ask. One corresponding role for the intellectual historian is that of acting as a kind of archaeologist, bringing buried intellectual treasure back to the surface, dusting it down and enabling us to consider what we think of it.

Liberty Before Liberalism (1998)

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