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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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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:
The Morality of Consent
The Supreme Court and the idea of progress (1970)
Politics and the Warren Court (1965)
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