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The news and the truth are not the same thing.

Walter Lippmann

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Walter Lippmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 23
Died: 1974
Died: December 14
Journalist
Politician
Writer
New York City
New York
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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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The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.
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And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is in fact indispensable.
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Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.
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Politicians tend to live in character and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
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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.
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The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.
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The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
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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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It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.
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The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they don't their failure will be a tragedy for civilization, a loss of cooperative effort, a baulking of energy, and the fixing in American life of a class-structure.
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There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.
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Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.
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Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned to their masters, why so many emancipated women are only too glad to give up the racket and settle down. For between announcing that you will live your own life, and the living of it lie the real difficulties of any awakening.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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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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When all think alike, then no one is thinking
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Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
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A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
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