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Richard Hofstadter Quotes

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.
Richard Hofstadter

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Type:
Historian Quotes
Category:
American Historian Quotes
Date of Birth:
August 6, 1916
Date of Death:
October 24, 1970
Nationality:
American
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