The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
BERNARD CRICKToo often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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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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Free men stick their necks out.
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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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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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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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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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Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
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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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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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Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
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If, of course, one builds into the concept of an ‘individual’ all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom.
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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.
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Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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