Quote by Walter Lippmann
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is i

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

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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. – Walter Lippmann

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

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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. – Walter Lippmann

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Individual possession is the great entering wedge, which has split society into eight hundred million fragments…. It virtually, practically, and theoretically denies the brotherhood of man. – Hiram Stafford, The Liberator, 8 September 1844

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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. – Herbert Spencer

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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce. – Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations

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The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country. – John Adams

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