Freedom Quote by Bernard Connolly

““as the Israeli philosopher Yoram Hazony put it recently, ‘For quite a few centuries, it seems as though it’s been the British nation-state15 (together with its admirers in France, America, Austria) that has been teaching the world what it means for peoples to live in freedom and decency, while the idea of “Europe” has spawned a succession of tyrannies.””

Bernard Connolly

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