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Politics and Knowledge

Browse 3 quotations catalogued under Politics with "knowledge" in the text or topic label.

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This collection contains 3 quotations filed under Politics with "knowledge" in the quote text or topic label. These keyword matches offer a starting point for exploring Politics and Knowledge; they do not by themselves establish a shared argument or a historical connection between the authors.

The authors represented include Warren G. Harding, Jeffrey Friedman (political scientist), Krste Misirkov. Read each quotation in its own context rather than assuming that these authors share a position.

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3 Quotes on Politics and Knowledge

"Much has been said of late about world ideals. But I prefer to think of the ideal for America. I like to think there's something more than the patriotism and practical wisdom of the founding fathers. It's good to believe that maybe destiny held this New World republic to be the supreme example of representative democracy and orderly liberty by which humanity is inspired to higher achievement. It is idle to think we have attained perfection, but there is the satisfying knowledge that we hold orderly processes for making our government reflect the heart and mind of the Republic."

— Warren G. Harding

"…A government as large as the modern megastate cannot conceivably be controlled by a well-informed public, since it is literally impossible to be knowledgeable about even a fraction of the many complex matters modern governments are called upon to govern. … The attraction of free markets … is that they have self-correcting features that place far smaller demands on anyone’s knowledge than democracy does. Each person concerns herself with her own life and the system, supposedly, runs itself. Interpreted in this way, the literature on public ignorance could form the basis of the consequentialist argument the postwar free-market economists sought, but never found … against all government economic intervention: for even if it cannot be shown, on economic grounds, that every intervention hurts more than it helps, it might be shown, on political grounds, that by opening the door to helpful interventions, we begin sliding toward the unhelpful ones on a slope slippery with public ignorance."

— Jeffrey Friedman (political scientist)

"If it is officially acknowledged that there are not several Slav nationalities in Macedonia, but only one, which is neither Bulgarian nor Serbian, and if Macedonia secedes as an independent Bishopric, Turkey will be immediately freed from interference in Macedonian affairs by the three neighboring states."

— Krste Misirkov

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Warren G. Harding· Politics Jeffrey Friedman (political scientist)· Science Krste Misirkov

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