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" Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. "
Walter Lippmann
Property
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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. "
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" 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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" 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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" When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. "
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" 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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" 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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" When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. "
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" 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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" People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. "
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Middle-Aged
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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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Leader
Grace
" 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
" The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. "
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Big
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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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Power
Only
" Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. "
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Radical
New
" Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. "
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Industry
Better
Genius
" 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
" 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
" 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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Passion
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Men
" 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
" The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. "
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Business
Leader
Him
" 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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Always
Good
More
" 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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Honor
He
" 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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Degree
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" A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state. "
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Air
Long
Life
" When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. "
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People
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Over
" Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. "
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Attractive
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" Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. "
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Possible
Ideals
Which
" There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. "
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Discovery
Good
" 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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Government
Best