Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 375 of the original edition of Walter Lippmann’s sometimes deeply flawed but profoundly insightful and still-important 1937 book, The Good Society:

It is just here, I submit, that the ultimate issue is joined, on the question of whether men shall be inviolable persons or as things to be disposed of; it is here that the struggle between barbarism and civilization, between despotism and liberty, has always been fought. Here it must still be fought.