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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
Maintained
Promoting
Debate
Freedom
Speak

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If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained - then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.
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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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If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.
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Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.
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Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong where truth is poisoned at its source one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.
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Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.
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What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
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Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.
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True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective.
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Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.
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Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion.
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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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Politicians tend to live in character and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
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Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.
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Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.
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Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.
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While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.
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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
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The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.
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It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.
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