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Walter Lippmann Inspirational Quotes (219)

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It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.
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Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.
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Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
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Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.
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We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.
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I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.
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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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Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.
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A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.
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There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.
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A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.
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You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
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Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.
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There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs.
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Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.
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There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.
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In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief
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To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.
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While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.
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Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.
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A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.
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Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
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So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
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Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.
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