Walter Lippmann Quotes

• 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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• The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

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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 private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

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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 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 first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

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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.

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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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• Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.

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• Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

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• People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

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• Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

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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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• Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

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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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• Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

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• Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

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• It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

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• In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

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Walter Lippmann (53)

Birth:	23rd September, 1989
Death:	14th December, 1974
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Journalist, Politician, Writer

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