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The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Bernard Crick

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
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Political Politics Together
The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
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Groups Method Tyrants
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
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Character Poor Relation
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands – though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.
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Demand Guarantees Political
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence…politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.
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Evil Political Politics
The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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Agony Order Practice
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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Chaos Conservatives Men Order
If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
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Discovery Government Need Support
Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
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Done Interest Justice
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

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