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The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

Bernard Crick

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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Ideas Simple Technology
What matters in Politics is what men actually do – sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.
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Acting Matter Men What
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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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Condescension Men Praise
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. 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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Men Political Politics
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
The political process is not tied to any particular doctrine. Genuine political doctrines, rather, are the attempt to find particular and workable solutions to this perpetual and shifty problem of conciliation.
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Doctrine Political Politics Problem
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
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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Builds Men Order Professor
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
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
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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