The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been. . . important in … - Jeane Kirkpatrick

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My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will remain missing. He will go on feeling that somehow something is not there that should be.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been. . . important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved by politics. The history of the last two centuries confirms what the framers of the Constitution understood: that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and the search for unalloyed virtue in public life leads to unalloyed terror.

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