A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.Walter Lippmann
When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
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You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.
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The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.
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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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