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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 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
Free men stick their necks out.
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Free Men Neck Sticks
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
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
The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity.
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Character Lying Unique
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
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
There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.
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Certainty Danger Desire
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
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
Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.
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Autocracy Totalitarianism
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
Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage.
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Factory Living Workers Working
BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.
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Boredom Enemy Men
Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.
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Manners Rough Things Useful
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

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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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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