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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.

Bernard Crick

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
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 politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.
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Honour Politician Pride Use
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
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 unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
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
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
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
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
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
To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.
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Derivatives Doctrine Social
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
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
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks

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