Quotation by George Walden

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Times (London, December 20, 1986)

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A country losing touch with its own history is like an old man losing his glasses, a distressing sight, at once vulnerable, unsure, and easily disoriented.

George Walden

George Walden (b. 1939), British Conservative politician. Times (London, December 20, 1986).

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