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Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.
Walter Lippmann
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Walter Lippmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 23
Died: 1974
Died: December 14
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The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively.
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There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.
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Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity.
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Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
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