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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Envy like fire always makes for the highest points. ↗

— Titus Livius

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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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