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Walter Lippmann Quotes

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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  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) 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  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) 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  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) 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  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) 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  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) 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 Quotes) The newspaper is in all it's literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines it's conduct  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) A nation has security when it does not have to sacrifice it's legitimate interests to avoid war and is able, if challenged, to maintain them by war  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power; run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) Society can only exist on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) The emotion of love, in spite of the romantics, is not self-sustaining; it endures only when the lovers love many things together, and not merely each other  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) Whether we wish it our not we are involved in the world's problems, and all the winds of heaven blow through our land  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) 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  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) 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  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) 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 Quotes) The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) 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  (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  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) 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  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors  (Walter Lippmann Quotes) Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre  (Walter Lippmann Quotes)
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