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Richard Hofstadter
American
Historian
Born:
Aug 6
,
1916
Died:
Oct 24
,
1970
Anything Else
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Character
Either
Political
United States
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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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A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
Richard Hofstadter
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