Walter Lippmann Quotes

Walter Lippmann (44)

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

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• The study of error serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

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

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

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

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

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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