Quote by Walter Lippmann
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with th

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. – Walter Lippmann

Other quotes by Walter Lippmann

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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Intelligence
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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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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority. – Walter Lippmann

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Minorities
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If you can make people understand why freedom is so important through the arts, that would be a big help. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isnt free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community. – Robert M. Gates

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Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence. – William Falconer

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Money buys many things… The best of which is freedom. – Mary Renault

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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

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Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. – Richard Powers

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There is just one life for each of us: our own. – Euripides

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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. – Robert A. Heinlein

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