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No good society can be unprincipled; and no viable society can be principle-ridden.

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No society, certainly not a large and heterogeneous one, can fail in time to explode if it is deprived of the arts of compromise, if it knows no way of muddling through.

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Our problem has been, and is most acutely now, the tyrannical tendency of ideas and the suicidal emptiness of politics without ideas.

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We reason from the aspirations of previous generations, not from their frailties.

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Alexander Bickel

Alexander Bickel

Born: December 17, 1924
Died: November 8, 1974 (aged 49)
Bio: Alexander Mordecai Bickel was a law professor and expert on the United States Constitution. One of the most influential constitutional commentators of the twentieth century, his writings emphasize judicial restraint.
Known for:
  1. The Morality of Consent
  2. The Supreme Court and the idea of progress (1970)
  3. Politics and the Warren Court (1965)

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