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Walter Lippmann
Age: 85 †
Born: 1889
Born: September 23
Died: 1974
Died: December 14
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New York City
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
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Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.
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Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.
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There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
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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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Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
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It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.
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We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern.
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It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.
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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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I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.
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Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
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