Clinton Rossiter Quotes

#1. Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms ... one man was the government of the United States ... Lincoln was a great dictator ... This great constitutional dictator was self appointed.

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#2. Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

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#3. No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

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#4. In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged.

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#5. There is no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality
and none of these great goods without stability and order.

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#6. The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.

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#7. Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

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#8. No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

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