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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.
Clinton Rossiter
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Clinton Rossiter
Age: 52 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 18
Died: 1970
Died: July 11
Historian
Political Scientist
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Clinton Lawrence Rossiter III
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