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The Independence Party (Icelandic: Sjálfstæðisflokkurinn) was a political party in Iceland. The Independence Party langsum and the Independence Party þversum denote two factions that split the party at one time. The party dissolved in 1927 and its members mostly divided between the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party. However, in 1929, the Conservative Party and Liberal Party merged. The new party was named the Independence Party, which purposefully evoked the name of the defunct Old Independence Party.
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“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)