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Walter Lippmann Inspirational Quotes (219)

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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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The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.
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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.
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To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
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Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.
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Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
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In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.
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The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul.
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A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.
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The news and the truth are not the same thing.
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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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You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.
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Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.
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You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.
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You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
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Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
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The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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Life can be swamped by sex very easily if sex is not normally satisfied.
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Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.
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Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
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The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.
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One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer dismiss the fantasy because it is logically inconsistent, superficially absurd, or objectively untrue.
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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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