Walter Lippmann's Quote - Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all

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

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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. – Walter Lippmann

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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. – Walter Lippmann

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