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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.

Bernard Crick

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
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
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
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
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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
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
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
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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Economic Individualism Programmed Such Theory
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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
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
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working

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