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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
Debate
Freedom
Speak
Maintained
Promoting

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There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.
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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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There are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.
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A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law.
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We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.
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We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.
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What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
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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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For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.
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When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.
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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 balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics.
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In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief
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The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
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Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.
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Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
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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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Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.
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The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
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