Quote by Walter Lippmann
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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. – Walter Lippmann

Other quotes by Walter Lippmann

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

Category:
Freedom
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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

Category:
Minorities
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You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. – Walter Lippmann

Category:
Technology
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Other Quotes from
Freedom
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The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about. – Marian Wright Edelman

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Freedom

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. – John Kenneth Galbraith

Category:
Freedom

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray. – Lech Walesa

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Freedom

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has. – Anita Brookner

Category:
Freedom

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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. – William Hazlitt

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It is great to add some glamour to the food industry, like television shows have done for the food world and inspiring people to work in the industry. The flip side of that is unfortunately people think that after they get their qualifications, they get their invitation to compete on Top Chef. – Curtis Stone

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What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, thats another matter. – Peter Drucker

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