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Topic Title: Walter Lippmann on Free Speech and Sophistry Topic Summary: Walter Lippmannm, Essays in the Public Philosophy, 1955) Created On: 10/30/2019 08:27 AM |
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Walter Lippmann on Free Speech and Sophistry
"If there is a dividing line between liberty and license, it is where freedom of speech is no longer respected as a procedure of the truth and becomes the unrestricted right to exploit the ignorance, and to incite the passions, of the people. Then freedom is such a hullabaloo of sophistry, propaganda, special pleading, lobbying, and salesmanship that it is difficult to remember why freedom of speech is worth the pain and trouble of defending it. . . . It is sophistry to pretend that in a free country a man has some sort of inalienable or constitutional right to deceive his fellow man. There is no more right to deceive than there is a right to swindle, to cheat, or to pick pockets." (Walter Lippmannm, Essays in the Public Philosophy, 1955) ------------------------- Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. |
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