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.
BERNARD CRICKIndividualism 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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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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The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states.
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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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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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BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
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Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
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Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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