Neil MacGregor Quotes:
Ocupation: Museum director
Life: b. June 16, 1946
Birthday: June 16
The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry and comparison, to resist the certainties that endanger free society and are still among the greatest threats to our liberty.
source: "The whole world in our hands" by Neil MacGregor, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2004. 
topic: Museums, Liberty, Citizens, British Museum
