A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
- Walter Lippmann Quote

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
- Walter Lippmann Quote

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
- Walter Lippmann Quote

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
- Walter Lippmann Quote

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
- Walter Lippmann Quote

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
- Walter Lippmann Quote

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
- Walter Lippmann Quote

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
- Walter Lippmann Quote

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
- Walter Lippmann Quote

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
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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.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
- Walter Lippmann Quote

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
- Walter Lippmann Quote

We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
- Walter Lippmann Quote

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann Quote