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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.
Walter Lippmann
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Walter Lippmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 23
Died: 1974
Died: December 14
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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 search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.
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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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Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.
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Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
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A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.
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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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Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
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So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
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Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.
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A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.
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We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
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Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
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In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.
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You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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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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Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.
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Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.
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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
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