"The rule of law bakes no bread, it……" — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
"The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised."
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Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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10 Quotes by Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Michael Joseph Oakeshott has 10 quotes on this site.
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Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar,…
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Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it…
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In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor…
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A recorded past is no more than a bygone present composed of the footprints made by human beings actually going…
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Education is ... the invitation to disentangle oneself, for a time, from the urgencies of the here and now and…
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Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.
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To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact…
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This, I believe, is the appropriate image of human intercourse -- appropriate because it recognizes the qualities, the diversities, and…
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History is what the evidence compels us to believe.
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More Assault Quotes
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder…
— Conrad Black
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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an…
— Noam Chomsky
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How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among…
— Harry J. Anslinger
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Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I am firmly convinced, therefore, that to set up a republic which is to last a long time, the way…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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So the British, of all ages, still walk the course. On trips to Florida or the American desert, they still…
— Alistair Cooke
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Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the…
— Hugh Prather
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Poverty arises and persists where corruption is endemic and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of…
— Colin Powell
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Form is all we have to help us cope with fundamentally chaotic facts and assaults. Formulating something is a great…
— Gerhard Richter
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Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill…
— Tim Field
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Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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This is a matter of vital importance to the public safety ... While we recognize that assault-weapon legislation will not…
— Ronald Reagan
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