| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 911 |
| AUTHOR: | Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) |
| QUOTATION: | I have no confidence in the system of isolement [isolation]. It does not answer in social life for individuals, nor in politics for nations. Man is a social animal. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | ARTHUR WELLESLEY, DUKE OF WILLINGTON, letter to Thomas Raikes, March 1, 1841.—Private Correspondence of Thomas Raikes, ed. Harriet Raikes, pp. 262–63 (1861). |
| SUBJECTS: | Isolationism |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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