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The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.

Bernard Crick

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 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
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
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
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
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
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 idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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Consistency Ideas Skills
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
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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Demand Fundamentals Problem
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible

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