I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your trust in princes. Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
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If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained -- then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.Walter Lippmann
You must not complicate your government beyond the capacity of its electorate to understand it.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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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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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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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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