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Walter Lippmann
While the right...
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right...
When all think...
When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
The thinker dies,...
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are...
The study of...
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the...
The opposition is...
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his...
A long life...
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist...
Art enlarges experience...
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
Source: In...
A country survives...
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it...
Almost always tradition...
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created....
A man has...
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do...
A useful definition...
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human...
Between ourselves and...
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our...
Ages when custom...
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must...
An alliance is...
An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United...
A man who...
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own...
Culture is the...
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the...
Brains, you know,...
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
Source: Recalled on his...
Certainly he is...
Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a...
Corrupt, stupid grasping...
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and...
Even God has...
Even God has been defended with nonsense.
Source: A Preface to Politics, 1914
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