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• The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was the Negro, for the whole movement in the South coincided paradoxically with the crest of the wave of racism. Still more important to the association of the two movements was the fact that their leaders were often identical. In fact, the typical Progressive reformer rode to power in the South on a disenfranchising or white-supremacy movement.

  C. Vann Woodward

  Philosophy, Two, Blind Spots

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• If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Philosophy, Class, Support

  Jean Baptiste Say (1827). “A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth”, p.91

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• It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective (except in substitution for investment by other entrepreneurs which would have occurred otherwise) at a faster rate than the public decide to increase their savings

  John Maynard Keynes

  Philosophy, Order, Entrepreneur

  John Maynard Keynes (2006). “General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money”, p.75, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I'm a constitutional conservative. I'm a Reagan constitutional conservative. I can think of no three better words to describe my political philosophy. And I will remain a Reagan constitutional conservative. It doesn't matter to what the elites D.C. think in the Republican or the Democratic Party

  Bobby Jindal

  Philosophy, Party, Thinking

  "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run on 'Hannity'". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

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• A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

  Raymond Geuss

  Philosophy, Political, Prejudice

  "Outside Ethics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2005.

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• I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic.

  Camille Paglia

  Christian, Philosophy, Italian

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• If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Philosophy, Mean, Political

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• I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitute works of political philosophy but rather writings that stand in utter contradiction to concepts like logic, freedom, feminism, secularism, brotherhood - which are my ideals.

  Michel Onfray

  Atheist, Philosophy, Writing

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• Benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual.

  Adolf Hitler

  Philosophy, Community, Political

  "Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory, and Poli". Book by Avraham Barkai, pp. 26–27, 1990.

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• The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. People who understand history, especially the history of government, do well to fear it. For a people to express openly their fear of those of us who are afraid of tyranny is alarming. Fear of the state is in no sense subversive. It is, to the contrary, the healthiest political philosophy for a free people.

  Jeff Cooper

  Country, Father, Philosophy

  "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 4, No. 16, December 1996.

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• In short, is American life of the future to be characterized by freedom or by servitude, strength or weakness? The answer must be clear and unequivocal if we are to avoid the pitfalls toward which we are now heading with such certainty. In many respects it is not to be found in any dogma of political philosophy but in those immutable precepts which underlie the Ten Commandments.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Philosophy, Voting, Political

  Douglas MacArthur, Edward T. Imparato (2001). “General MacArthur: Wisdom and Visions”, p.130, Turner Publishing Company

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• I learned the importance of a man's chair early in life. I learned that he may love several wives, embrace several cars, be true to more than one political philosophy, and be equally committed to several careers, but he will have only one comfortable chair in his life. I learned it will be an ugly chair. It will match nothing in the entire house. It will never wear out.

  Erma Bombeck

  Philosophy, Men, Careers

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• Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

  Auguste Comte

  Philosophy, Men, Thinking

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book by Alan Lindsay Mackay, 1991.

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• Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing, reconciles us to our political and social condition. Our hope for the future of our society rests on the belief that the social world allows a reasonably just Society of Peoples.

  John Rawls

  Philosophy, Political, Our Society

  John Rawls (2001). “The Law of Peoples: With, The Idea of Public Reason Revisited”, p.11, Harvard University Press

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• Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral?

  Raymond Geuss

  Philosophy, Political, Understanding

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.38, Princeton University Press

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• One way ... in which a political philosophy can be ideological is by presenting a relatively marginal issue as if it were central and essential.

  Raymond Geuss

  Philosophy, Issues, Political

  Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.54, Princeton University Press

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• I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events.

  Steven Pinker

  Philosophy, Thinking, Ideas

  "Proud atheists". Interview with Steve Paulson, www.salon.com. October 15, 2007.

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• I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.

  Greg Ginn

  Song, Philosophy, Thinking

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• I believe that white frame house is worthy of more than a nod of nostalgia, because the values President Clinton learned there and in Hope formed the core of his political philosophy.

  Mack McLarty

  Philosophy, Believe, White

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• I want everyone to keep the property that he has acquired for himself according to the principle: benefit to the community precedes benefit to the individual. But the state should retain supervision and each property owner should consider himself appointed by the state. It is his duty not to use his property against the interests of others among his own people. This is the crucial matter. The Third Reich will always retain its right to control the owners of property.

  Adolf Hitler

  Philosophy, People, Community

  "Nazi Economics: Ideology, Theory, and Policy". Book by Avraham Barkai, pp. 26-27, 1990.

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• Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

  Bob Ehrlich

  Philosophy, Thoughtful, People

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• The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of restraint. A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one man, and no body of men, and no number of men, can find means to trespass on the liberty of any person, or any description of persons, in the society. This kind of liberty is, indeed, but another name for justice.

  Edmund Burke

  Philosophy, Mean, Men

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

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• I am NOT an anarchist. Never have been, never will be. Just because Crimethinc put out two of my poetry books, I am labeled everywhere as an anarchist poet. I am a poet, yes. Not an anarchist. I have no formulated political philosophy other than a general feeling of disgust for the majority of the human race.

  Raegan Butcher

  Philosophy, Book, Race

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• No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'- used by Mr.Mallon (SDLP) and his colleagues to describe their political philosophy is a contradiction in terms. The only constitutional nationalist in Ireland today is Sean McBride. He puts his nationalism within a framework of Irish constitutionality. Mr. Mallon, however, puts his within the framework of British constitutionality. Irish nationalism within British constitutionality is a contradiction in terms.

  Gerry Adams

  Philosophy, Government, Support

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• Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

  William Kristol

  Philosophy, Discovery, Political

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