Walter Lippmann Quotes

• Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

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• Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

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• A man 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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• 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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• Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

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• Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

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• 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.

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• In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, . . . it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation’s history.

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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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• Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

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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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• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

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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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Walter Lippmann (53)

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

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