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

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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We dont appreciate what we have until its gone. Freedom is like that. Its like air. When you have it, you dont notice it. – Boris Yeltsin

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The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. – David Riesman

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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. – Wole Soyinka

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So keep fightin for freedom and justice, beloveds, but dont you forget to have fun doin it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. – Molly Ivins

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I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I wont have that person around me. – Leona Lewis

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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls. – George Bernard Shaw

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Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. – Author Unknown

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