When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions. ✨ Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy, p.233, Harvard University Press
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