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“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”

Walter Lippmann · Music

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Walter Lippmann

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

Freedom

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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Knowledge

Walter Lippmann

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

Men