"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."
― Walter Lippmann
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Freedom
More From Walter Lippmann
- "The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."
- "It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."
- "The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
More In Freedom
- "Freedom cannot be given… It can only be taken away."― David Allan Coe
- "An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable."― Alan Greenspan
- "You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box."― George W. Bush