Best Quotes by Walter Lippmann (Top 10)
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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When all think alike, then no one is thinking
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There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
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It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?
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Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
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The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
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More Walter Lippmann Quotes
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The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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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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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.
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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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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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Love endures when the lovers love many things together
And not merely each other.....
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.
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