"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."
— Intellectual

January 1, 1970

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Richard Hofstadter, ‘’Anti-Intellectualism in American Life’’ , Knopf, 1963. Quoted.in “Encarta Book of Quotations”. Bloomsbury, London, 2000 (pg. 660)