Walter Lippmann Quotes About Freedom

Quotes about: Freedom

• 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”

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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