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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.
Walter Lippmann
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Walter Lippmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 23
Died: 1974
Died: December 14
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Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.
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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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The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.
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When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.
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Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
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