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Quote by Walter Lippmann
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legi

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. – Walter Lippmann

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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority. – Walter Lippmann

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Minorities
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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

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Men
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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. – Walter Lippmann

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America
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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Constitution

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom. – George Bernard Shaw

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Constitution

A Constitution should be short and obscure. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Constitution

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Constitution

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. – G.K. Chesterton

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The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor. – Leland Stanford

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Intelligence

History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. – Alan Greenspan

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History

It is only by not paying ones bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. – Oscar Wilde

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