To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fa…

Walter Lippmann
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To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state. ✨ Walter Lippmann, William Edward Leuchtenburg (1961). Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest, p.141, Univ of Wisconsin Press
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To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state. ✨ Walter Lippmann, William Edward Leuchtenburg (1961). Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest, p.141, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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