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The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

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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Bewildered
Less
Herd
Place
Herds
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Tyranny
Live
Powers
Must
Exercise
Even
Perhaps
Trampling
Public
Roar

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