BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

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 Together

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

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Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

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Affair

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

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

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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

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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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Political

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

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.

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Factory Living Workers Working

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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Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

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Autocracy Totalitarianism

Free men stick their necks out.

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Free Neck Sticks

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of ‘reason’ as single sources of authority.

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Firsts Real

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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Fundamentals

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

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

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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Political

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

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