“There you [Sir Robert Peel] sit, doing penance for the disingenuousness of years.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
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“I will simply not do penance.”
A text handwritten by Eichmann in 1956, as quoted in Eichmann Before Jerusalem by Bettina Stangneth (2015).
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