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

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

Walter Lippmann
Freedom, Liberty, Libertarian
Walter Lippmann (1934). “The method of freedom”

We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.

Walter Lippmann
Freedom, People, Support
Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.107, Harvard University Press

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

Walter Lippmann
Freedom, Men, Effort
Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.14, Transaction Publishers

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

Walter Lippmann
Freedom, Men, Liberty
Walter Lippmann (1995). “Liberty and the News”, p.61, Transaction Publishers

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.

Walter Lippmann
Freedom, Should Have, Humanity

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