Quote by Quentin Skinner

"To claim authority for a concept, one must show that it has a pedigree, that great thinkers have endorsed it. This is why history matters for politics."

Quentin Skinner Politics
Historian Philosopher British Born 1940 (age 86)

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"The past is not dead; it is not even past."
"Ideas have consequences, and the historian's task is to trace them."
"We must understand the languages in which the past speaks to us."
"The study of history is the study of human possibility."

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