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Quote from Walter Lippmann,


"The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man.
This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on which we may justify our belief in it,
that it tolerates error in order to serve truth."


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Walter Lippmann (more quotes by Walter Lippmann or books by/about Walter Lippmann)


(1889-1974) American writer, journalist, and political commentator

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Virtue, Freedom, Liberty, Responsibility, Truth, Tolerance

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