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" In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. "
Walter Lippmann
Men
Free
Justice
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" The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. "
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" The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. "
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" The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. "
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" The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. "
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" In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. "
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" No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. "
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" The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. "
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" We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. "
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Belief
World
" It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. "
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Equally
Government
Best
" What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. "
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Call
Always
" Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. "
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You
Touch
" The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. "
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America
Adventure
" Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. "
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Prophecy
Insight
" The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. "
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Fool
Best
People
" Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men. "
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Worthy
Consciousness
Man
" When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. "
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Try
Politicians
Cease
" Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. "
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Where
Think
Much
" Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. "
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Weak
Fail
Social
" Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. "
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Success
Effort
Become
" He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. "
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Ideal
Honor
He
" There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. "
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Pride
Knowledge
Divine
" We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. "
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Now
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Learn
" The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. "
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Stumble
Pick
Casual
" Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. "
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Industry
Better
Genius
" A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. "
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Honor
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" When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. "
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Men
Civilized
Become
" The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. "
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Rejection
Heart
Belief
" The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. "
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Walls
Time
Stop
" Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. "
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Men
Danger
Young