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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

Bernard Crick

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
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
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
Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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Government Impossible
Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
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Challenges Ideological Political Rule Thinking
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
Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.
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Affair Democracy World
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
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
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
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
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
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 has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks

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