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There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

Walter Lippmann
Lying, Mean, Community

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.

Walter Lippmann
Giving Up, Real, Lying
Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.123, University of Wisconsin Pres

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

Walter Lippmann
Stars, Lying, Moving
Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.127, Transaction Publishers

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