Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the …

Walter Lippmann
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1914). A Preface to Politics
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1914). A Preface to Politics

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