• 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
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator 1889-1974
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. environment
2. principle
3. responses
4. process
5. educate
6. control

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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. by : Walter Lippmann

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