Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann

"What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority."
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"What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority."
Walter Lippmann
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
Walter Lippmann
"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
"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
Walter Lippmann
"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
"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
"When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute."
Walter Lippmann
"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
"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."
Walter Lippmann
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed."
Walter Lippmann
"The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract."
Walter Lippmann
"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."
Walter Lippmann
"A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient unprofitable or dangerous to do so."
Walter Lippmann
"In a democracy the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is indispensable."
Walter Lippmann
"While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom the necessity of listening is what makes the right important."
Walter Lippmann
"If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power."
Walter Lippmann
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