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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.
Walter Lippmann
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Walter Lippmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 23
Died: 1974
Died: December 14
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It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.
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Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.
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Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.
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Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant fail to use them and it is weak.
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The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.
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Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.
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Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.
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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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The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.
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The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.
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Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.
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Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue it must be the intelligible consequence of it.
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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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The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.
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To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.
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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 present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.
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