“The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.”

—  Bernard Crick

Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 7, In Praise Of Politics, p. 140.

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British political theorist and democratic socialist 1929–2008

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