Quote by Walter Lippmann
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. – Walter Lippmann

Other quotes by Walter Lippmann

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. – Walter Lippmann

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Success
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Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. – Walter Lippmann

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Corruption
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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. – Walter Lippmann

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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The less men think, the more they talk. – Charles de Montesquieu

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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. – Abraham Maslow

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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. – Samuel Richardson

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