Anne Salmond Quotes

Perhaps we've been a bit serious about our history in the past, a bit pious. I think maybe we focused before on the gloomier sides of our history, the entanglements that didn't work, the land wars and the things that went awry.

- Anne Salmond

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People are bouncing across boundaries - we are starting to have fun with our history rather than seeing it as something we have to castigate ourselves for. - Anne Salmond

Perhaps we've been a bit serious about our history in the past, a bit pious. I think maybe we focused before on the gloomier sides of our history, the entanglements that didn't work, the land wars and the things that went awry. - Anne Salmond

The debate is quite exciting. I would much rather that we're sitting there having a vehement argument than there was just sullen silence around these issues. It's part of trying to work it all out. - Anne Salmond