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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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.Walter Lippmann
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
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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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Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.
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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
Walter Lippmann
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